Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

https://waydro.id/

by pabs3 • 5 years ago

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marcodiego15• 5 years ago

Doubts:

- Is it better/faster/more compatible than anbox?

- Runs on ARM?

- Does it allows me to watch DRM streaming services on my linux box?

- Can I install google play on it?

Spivak• 5 years ago

I feel like you're expecting a lot from a a container running LineageOS with some integrations into the window manager.

It's a container so the arch matches the host kernel.

In general on LineageOS it's possible to install gapps.

You won't be able to watch DRM streaming services that require Widevine higher than L3 support.

judge2020• 5 years ago

- Does it allows me to watch DRM streaming services on my linux box?

It doesn't include a HSM, so if it does allow you to watch DRM content, it'll only be Widevine level 3 content, which most services restrict to 420p or sometimes 720p streaming.

https://support.google.com/widevine/answer/6072714?hl=en

chrismorgan2• 5 years ago

Waydroid has Android use your actual Linux kernel, so on an x86-64 host you’ll run x86-64 Android, and on an ARM host, ARM Android. This means that there will be some apps that won’t run on your Intel/AMD computer. I have no idea at all how common it is for Android apps to be tied to ARM, but I imagine that ARM64 will have helped with architecture-neutrality.

bogwog3• 5 years ago

If the app doesn't use any native libraries, it should be able to run on any architecture. Otherwise, I don't think you'll find many developers shipping x86/x86_64 binaries nowadays considering there are no real devices that use it.

I think Intel has (or had?) a tool/library for translating ARM to x86 called Houdini. Can't seem to find it though, and it might require a license anyways.

gizdan2• 5 years ago

This means that there will be some apps that won’t run on your Intel/AMD computer.

Should be able to still run them if you use binfmt_misc. Of course it will be slower but it's possible.

kllrnohj• 5 years ago

but I imagine that ARM64 will have helped with architecture-neutrality.

What would have helped a lot more here is the default emulator in Android Studio is currently, and has been for a while now, x86. Since of course x86 to x86 virtualization is a lot faster than ARM to x86 virtualization.

ARM64 didn't do much to help with architecture-neutrality just like X86_64 didn't.

rektide• 5 years ago

Is it better/faster/more compatible than anbox?

From the Anbox website:

"We're reusing what Android implemented within the QEMU-based emulator for OpenGL ES accelerated rendering."

I'm not certain but I believe WayDroid more directly attempts to provide Android drawing subsystems on top of Wayland. This should be better/faster. Cross fingers.

Compatibility wise, I'm unsure. Anbox may be a more faithful Android platform perhaps. Waydroid feels like it's a closer integration to me, with less virtualized-machinery, which is a much wider support target since it's running directly atop a wide variety of hosts. But I for one am very glad we have a closer integrated option, one where Android apps are running more within the Linux desktop context.

There's probably a bunch wrong with my understandings here. Hoping some even better informed people can correct/supplement.

genewitch2• 5 years ago

What streaming service doesn't work on FF ESR on Linux?

Netflix and prime and Pluto do, at least. That's all I use, so I am curious. I don't stream anything else, no Roku or Android-tv or whatever.

CameronNemo5• 5 years ago

None on ARM. Google never offered widevine to Firefox on ARM64.

supercheetah• 5 years ago

4k Netflix doesn't work on Linux, and also downloading for offline viewing, but I think those only work on Windows with HDCP enabled.

puppet-master• 5 years ago

Followed instructions for 21.04 (distro = "hirsute"), greeted with complaint about binder missing. Found some bug report on the web suggesting I must rebuild my kernel to enable binder. Noped out of there.

Looks like a nice effort though. Is this some problem specific to 21.04 kernel config?

iam-TJ• 5 years ago

In Ubuntu kernels the Android modules are named "binder_linux" and "ashmem_linux" so:

  sudo modprobe binder_linux
  sudo modprobe ashmem_linux

Where $version is the kernel version, for -generic kernels they are in the package "linux-modules-extra-${version}-generic" and for -lowlatency "linux-modules-${version}-lowlatency". On -generic the modules-extra may sometimes not be installed by default.

madushan1000• 5 years ago

Also if you have secureboot on,you won't be able to load ashmem because it's not signed by default by ubuntu. That is without signing the module yourself. I have waydroid running in 21.04 without any issues.

CameronNemo5• 5 years ago

I have seen an error like that with anbox before, but it was not on Ubuntu. I just had to mount the binderfs and it stopped complaining. Might be worth a try:

    mount -t binder binder /dev/binderfs

https://brauner.github.io/2019/01/09/android-binderfs.html

rd072• 5 years ago

I have tried Waydroid in Manjaro Linux, and to my surprise, it runs smoothly. I even able to install Aurora Store and install Telegram from there, which also run perfectly. RAM usage was minimal, maybe because of it is running on a container. The only thing I haven't figured out is keyboard input from my physical keyboard directly to the android.

piaste2• 5 years ago

I even able to install Aurora Store and install Telegram from there, which also run perfectly

Why Telegram specifically, when it already offers both a web client and a FOSS Linux client?

tgtweak6• 5 years ago

Isolation probably.

edit: or if it's anything like signal, the mobile app has some extra functionality that is omitted from the desktop/web client...

rd072• 5 years ago

Mainly because I want to see if : - I can install something from Aurora Store - The app can run - The app can connect to the internet without changing any config - The app can operate normally It is just a coincidence that the first apps I installed was Telegram. AFAIK, Waydroid doesn't add ARM virtualization, and because I installed it on a X86_64 computer, I doubt something installed from a store (which mainly aimed for ARM device) can even run properly.

moondev• 5 years ago

Did you need to do anything special to launch? Just hangs for me

Dhrhdhxbxbx• 5 years ago

If it's simple to set up, I'd like to use this for verifying and accessing private app data from Android backups without having to use a 2nd phone.

Does it support arm64 emulation on an x86_64 host? That way I could just run the backed up apks directly.

genewitch2• 5 years ago

Other comments specify this is not a virtual machine, it's a container, so there's no emulation.

You may need qemu.

coolspot2• 5 years ago

Waydroid is a containerized Android, not emulated, so it would run same arch as the host.

sodality2• 5 years ago

Title should be changed to Linux - thought this was Ubuntu-only at first (like if it were only in Ubuntu repos)

blendergeek2• 5 years ago

Yeah. This title should be reverted to the title on the page.

A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.

This could be simplified to:

WayDroid: Containerized Android for GNU/Linux

But as it is now, the title has been changed to be confusing.

xt003• 5 years ago

One of the biggest problems with anbox and ARC was that they would need to do tons of work on each new android version. If somebody is willing to keep updating this for new versions of android at least every other android release then it’s reasonable to say this will work long term, otherwise people will use of a year then abandon it.. so Google is now switching to using arcvm where they use a VM instead of trying to do a bunch of work to make android apps run in chromeOS running in a container that requires the right kernel and special compatibility libs / services running to pretend to be android.

underscore_ku• 5 years ago

so now we have waydroid and anbox

xt003• 5 years ago

It sort of looks like these guys said hey if anbox folks aren’t going to update their android version, let’s fork it and do our own thing? There are some random anbox files in the repo for waydroid.

chrismorgan2• 5 years ago

Waydroid was formerly known as anbox-halium; I believe it was a rewrite of Anbox to use system capabilities more or something, but I’m fuzzy on the details.

(As to what it’s now known as, I’m not actually certain: in most places it’s spelled Waydroid, but there are a number of places where it’s spelled WayDroid instead. Waaaaah! I can’t cope!)

deknos• 5 years ago

without snap and other propretiary stuff? then i would take it.

coolspot2• 5 years ago

Snapd is opensource

blendergeek2• 5 years ago

While snapd is open source, it's main (sole) purpose is to run (proprietary) software sourced from a propietary store.

amir-h• 5 years ago

It will be interesting to see how these kind of solutions compare with emulators for e2e testing of Android apps locally and on CI.

hereme8886• 5 years ago

I'm glad to recently switch to Linux as my primary OS with things like these available. Windows 11's android app integration now doesn't sound as appealing.

kxyvr• 5 years ago

Has anyone had success getting any of these containers to work with a camera?

Recently, my bank discontinued their website based deposit system for checks in favor of their app. I'm reluctant to keep an app with full access to my account on my phone, so a container system like Waydroid or Anbox would be great if I could just emulate the app when I need it. Has anyone else run into this issue and, if so, how have you dealt with it?

npteljes• 5 years ago

I got by in similar circumstances with Android x86. Which is simply an android VM. The catch is that it's not ARM, which some apps lamented - but the app I needed worked just fine.

exikyut• 5 years ago

FWIW/out of curiosity, I just tried poking the emulator that comes with Android Studio, and found an option (under "advanced settings") to route the emulated front or back camera to "Webcam0". This is out of the box on Debian.

While definitely a heavyweight approach (yay, installing all of Android Studio - but you also install an update tool), I can confirm it works. (And you can fish out and save the qemu invocation from `ps axfww`, then launch it directly without needing to start anything else, although I think the idiomatic approach is using the `emulator` command.)

zorr• 5 years ago

The emulator is part of the android SDK so you don't need to install the full IDE if all you need is the emulator. You can just install the Android SDK standalone and use that to install additional images and start/stop devices.

tathisit2• 5 years ago

Android is actually pretty secure. If you trust Linux kernel (which I think you do since you trust lxc), then you can trust Android.

knakk• 5 years ago

I have been trying to get my banking software to work with both Anbox and Waydroid for the last couple of days. So far I've had no success with either. I've gotten other apps to run just fine but not any related to banking. These apps are extremely picky about the environment you run them in. At least the ones I'm working with require Google Play Services, which is proprietary and have to be ripped from an Android image (if you don't want to take a chance on some shady download). Even with Play services, my app still will not start. I'm thinking it could be related to how Anbox and Waydroid shares the kernel with the host OS, and therefor it may not look like valid Android to the apps.

gbrindisi• 5 years ago

perhaps the containerized environment looks like a rooted phone?

Due to vague security requirements most banking apps refuse to run if the phone has been rooted.

unnouinceput• 5 years ago

Install Android in a VMWare box. Works like a charm. No fuss, no hassle. And you can customize your network isolation as you want.

electrikjesus8• 5 years ago

Most banking apps will require Google Play Services in order to work right. Currently, Waydroid does not offer that.

nyanpasu645• 5 years ago

Perhaps banking apps refuse to run on devices which don't pass SafetyNet (which generally expects a TPM to be present, which I find appalling)?

meltedcapacitor• 5 years ago

What about using last year's phone for banking etc?

electrikjesus8• 5 years ago

Erfan is finishing up on camera fixes soon. Updates should be pushed this weekend sometime.

29083011397778• 5 years ago

One of the major advantages of Waydroid that I've found is that it's lighter than Anbox. I know some here have compute to spare, but it makes a big difference on my Pinephone :)

It's still early days for Waydroid, but it's also decidedly a step forwards.

option_greek• 5 years ago

Can you add a bit more on what works and what doesn't work on waydroid compared with regular android and regular lineageos on pine phone.

amenod• 5 years ago

Wait - you can run waydroid, and thus presumably Android apps, on Pinephone? This is huge! How well does it work?

josteink4• 5 years ago

The PinePhone runs mainline Linux on a regular Arm64 SOC. Why shouldn’t it work? ;)

OJFord• 5 years ago

I've asked about anbox (not having heard of waydroid before now) on Pinephone threads before, consensus seemed to be even without bugs it's too slow on Pinephone hardware. (And indeed I've found it too buggy to be useful on my desktop anyway.)

So certainly lighter sounds good, and hopefully the future's bright - could be very useful in bridging the gap driving more Linux phone adoption. Some things just can't and won't be available (without way more adoption), like bank apps say, so being able to run the Android version smoothly would be a huge win.

cunidev• 5 years ago

Quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG0uAQqeqW4

Here is on a OnePlus 6T running postmarketOS, for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qaD5YIPkc

shrubble• 5 years ago

Idea: take the open source Beagle Bone Black, which has open source schematics, put into (probably chunkier) phone form factor, add 4g phone modem.

Use containers to segregate any apps, e.g. web browser, maps, Signal/Telegram all in a separate container from each other.

Would this allow for less privacy-invasion from Google etc.?

seba_dos13• 5 years ago

BBB requires non-free drivers for the GPU, which are a huge PITA even if you don't mind them being non-free. You would end up with more-or-less a Nokia N9 clone.

It's better to use something like i.MX 8M Quad - you may want to take a look at the Librem 5; or if you want something lower-end than that then there's also the PinePhone which is based on A64.

marcodiego15• 5 years ago

i.MX still needs binary blobs. I think the only ARM SBC today that can run blob-free today is Radxa's Rock pi 4.

pinusc• 5 years ago

If Google privacy invasion is what you fear, then there are simpler solutions. Simply installing lineageOS on a supported android device yields a functioning, de-googlified phone. Install only open source apps (from F-Droid, for example) and you're all set.

Android itself containerizes/isolates apps, with better & better security features in modern versions. LineageOS also adds their own layer of security (ex-PrivacyGuard) on top.

Granted, not all phones are created equal, meaning some of them will have restrictive bootloaders/need more proprietary drivers. It's possible some of them have spyware built in their bootloader/recovery/hardware, although I haven't heard of it. And of course there's 0 fully open-source android hardware phones.

Which, speaking of... this would be excellent on pinephone, which runs linux. Would allow running android apps on it, which is very very useful of course. I might finally bite the bullet and buy it...

dvdkon• 5 years ago

You could just use a PinePhone, you'd probably get similar performance in a much more convenient form factor.

marcodiego15• 5 years ago

See the video comparing a pinephone to a librem-5 running supertuxkart: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Benchm...

They are not on par in terms of performance.

fsflover9• 5 years ago

Your idea has been (in principle) implemented here: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.

tgtweak6• 5 years ago

What's different between this and anbox (other than support, focus, etc)?

How good is the 3d support, ie: Does it support a modern version of OpenGL ES? Can it process that via host hardware support (a la angle or similar)? Can it do that headlessly without an window server running on the host? Can the video output of the app be easily captured by nvenc or intel/amd equivalent?

Is arm translation supported natively or does it require plugins for the abi translation?

Are google's libraries (play services, play store, webview) or alternatives easy to install/supported?

Can the app data and system volume be mounted externally?

Can the system details (cpuid/flags, device name/mfg/model, android OS specifics) be provided/spoofed?

Can sensor inputs (gps location, tilt, multi-touch gestures, battery level, network status, camera/s) be easily simulated or passed from host sensor to the guest app? Can bluetooth be passed through from the host?

Would love for somebody to crush this space and not pivot immediately into commercial offering.

moritonal• 5 years ago

I'm sorry if this is rude, but this comment reads really strangely. You seem to acknowledge that you really want something, whilst also accept you cannot do it for a lack of time|skill and then seem annoyed that the people who do ask for some kind of payment for their work?

nalanda• 5 years ago

agreed

tgtweak6• 5 years ago

Just looking for the delta between this and anbox free/anbox cloud/genynotion cloud. No quams about paying for it honestly, just inquiring if any of these formerly paid-only (or build it yourself) features are being offered in the open here.

blfr• 5 years ago

That's one way to look at it. Another is that we have this beautiful open source commons that most devs make use of and we would like it to be richer.

AtlasBarfed2• 5 years ago

THis guy wants to run containers of Android games, such as the various Pay to Win Machine Zone games (they are just one example).

I played one of these once (some Final Fantasy thing) and the amount of manipulative social engineering, dopamine triggering sidegames, and manipulation by devs or employed super-players to "mix things up" to try to provoke people to fork over money was appalling.

Thankfully I used almost no money, I paid up for one or two things to see if they would be worth it (they weren't) before I could fully recognize the money extraction treadmill they were trying to get you one.

The games are a fascinating example of hyperinflation too.

numpad02• 5 years ago

I can understand how he ended up with that kind of accusatory tone. Existing solutions either come with severe compatibility issues(official Emulator, QEMU, etc.), or vaporwares with great demos(Project Astoria) or are really sketchy borderline malwares(rest of it - my presumptions) that does wonders.

nmstoker• 5 years ago

Did they edit their comment after your reply? I'm not seeing aspects you refer to (esp the time/skill point)

kowlo2• 5 years ago

That's quite the shopping list

tgtweak6• 5 years ago

Real use cases/requirements.

jcuenod4• 5 years ago

What's different between this and anbox

I believe Waydroid was originally "anbox-halium"—a rewrite with LXC to get closer to the metal.

tathisit2• 5 years ago

Why would anbox need lxc? For Ndk support? How good is it on waydroid?

seba_dos13• 5 years ago

Can it process that via host hardware support (a la angle or similar)?

You don't need ANGLE for that, Mesa supports OpenGL ES natively.

electrikjesus8• 5 years ago

- 3D support is using Mesa, so full GL accelleration on supported hardware (sorry nVidia, your Open-Source game sucks)

- Arm translation is on the radar, and we have solutions in the works. Just nothing ready for the masses yet.

- No Google Play Services as of yet. Some of our builds do use MicroG, Aurora Store, and other FOSS apps & open-source GMS options.

- It uses LXC, so yes, you can mount whatever is needed, we just don't have an exemplary (easy) way to do it yet.

- We are using hardware passthroughs via binder, so eventually Waydroid (Android side) will be able to access the system details available to it. Same with sensor inputs.

- We would all love to get paid, doing what we enjoy. But for this project, we are not even collecting donations yet. Money isn't what is driving this project. That's not saying that collecting donations and sponsorships aren't on our radar, just that it's not a primary focus. Open-Innovation is.

tgtweak6• 5 years ago

Awesome, very excited and will be following the project. Let me know when you have a donate button - or if you need testbeds.

sodimel• 5 years ago

Very nice project... but why does the third paragraph has a contenteditable tag set to true?

jcuenod4• 5 years ago

Lol! How did you notice this?

electrikjesus8• 5 years ago

Thanks for filing the issue. Pushed the update after I got out of work ;)

lanyusea• 5 years ago

looks amazing, wondering if it is possible to run NDK programs? didn't find any related info in docs

zekrioca4• 5 years ago

I do not know why they do not give credits, nor mention that they use LXC behind the scenes [1].

[1] https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/blob/bullseye/tools/hel...

gizdan2• 5 years ago

Why do they need to? Sure it'll be nice, but depending on your market, maybe that's an unnecessary implementation detail.

zekrioca4• 5 years ago

They do mention

"Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full…" [see main page]

when in fact they simply use LXD, which uses all these features. Besides, it is a project dependency, which is not mentioned anywhere.

Edit: clarity.

jrm45• 5 years ago

I am, of course, not naive enough to think that there's a good chance of it happening -- but I nevertheless strongly feel this way about every large tech company that isn't Microsoft not mentioning that they use Linux.

electrikjesus8• 5 years ago

We figured mentioning it in the docs under dependencies was enough (https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops). We will add it to the website instructions as well then to make things more clear.

pabs32• 5 years ago

Have you considered adding support for other container systems like systemd-nspawn or Kata Containers?

zekrioca4• 5 years ago

Thanks for clarifying, I haven’t seen it previously.

jrm45• 5 years ago

Name strongly implies it requires Wayland? (which, eww)

But the front page doesn't make this too clear, can anyone confirm?

ZiiS• 5 years ago

Yes it requires Wayland.

yjftsjthsd-h• 5 years ago

FWIW you can just run a Wayland compositor in a window on X. Not sure if there's a way to get it working without the root window to make it seamless, but it's still an option.

EDIT: Actually I tried it and this doesn't want to work in an instance of weston running on top of X; not sure where the failure is.

jrm45• 5 years ago

Color me surprised :)

Obviously its no one's job to fix Wayland for me or anything like that, but I've literally never gotten Wayland to work on anything beyond a live distro. Now, of course, I haven't tried very hard because I have no use for it. But yeah.

skerit• 5 years ago

Eww? Do you honestly believe the future of the Linux desktop is anything but Wayland?

jrm45• 5 years ago

Funny way to ask the question, which lets me know that it's at least still a question :)

What I believe doesn't matter of course, and I get that it's probably happening whether I like it or not; but this is the worst rollout of anything I've ever seen in the Linux world, and to me just violates the heck out of at least one of "the whole points" of using Linux.

Don't break backward compatibility! (and for me, e.g don't break my x2go)

the_third_wave2• 5 years ago

Well, yes, I do. I expect X11 to be around for quite a while, possibly even longer than Wayland. Now if Wayland itself gains some of the features which keep me at X11 - network transparency (through nx/x2go) and compatibility with the kitchen sink being the most important - this might change but until such a time I will use X11, as will many others.

1hrow_away1• 5 years ago

I wish I could setup waydroid on Raspberry Pi so that I can finally use hotstar/primevideo and netflix on my dumb tv.

I had bought firestick in past that is now stuck on boot loop for over a year. I have decided not buy these sticks or smart TV where I have little to no control over Software.

dannyw2• 5 years ago

There is always the Plex / seedbox / NAS route...

jcuenod4• 5 years ago

Why can't you?

logix• 5 years ago

If on Raspberry Pi OS, install libwidevinecdm0 and those should work.

evv555• 5 years ago

I hope they get this running through Termux now that it supports containers on the latest Lineage OS builds.

spansoa• 5 years ago

This could be useful for web development. You could download a bunch of Android browsers and test your site(s) with them, without having to do that on a finicky phone (for those who want to do everything on a desktop PC)

Jiejeing• 5 years ago

You know you have been able to do that for ages using the official android emulator, right?

jeroenhd2• 5 years ago

One thing I've run into with these projects is that they don't work well in a multi user setting. Anbox specifically assumes that only a single user is present in the system and having multiple users with multiple app profiles seems to be entirely unsupported.

I can't find anything about that use case in the description here, but if anyone has tried it I'd love to hear if Waydroid would be a fit for my use case.

nirav72• 5 years ago

Interesting. Might have to see if this can run tasker for automation

begueradj• 5 years ago

Sounds better than -the dead- Anbox

arendtio• 5 years ago

Does someone know why Arch Linux doesn't come with the binder and ashmem modules enabled by default?

Both are required to run Anbox and Waydroid so you have to switch to another kernel or build one yourself.

hereme8886• 5 years ago

Can anyone post a list of terminal commands to install Waydroid in Ubuntu 21? I'm a total Linux noob who just migrated from Windows. I got as far as: Sudo apt install python3 && curl && lxc

I don't know how to word the install for wayland session manager.

And copy pasting the.... "export DISTRO="bullseye" && \ curl https://repo.waydro.id/waydroid.gpg > /usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg && \ echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg] https://repo.waydro.id/ $DISTRO main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list && \ sudo apt update"

...told me permission denied to modify some files, even if I did it as "sudo".

I think once I get past that point I'll be able to type in the rest of the commands to start running it.

I think it would be lots of fun to run Android apps on a FOSS Android module. I was running LineageOS in VMWare within Windows, and it was ok.

Thanks!

marcodiego15• 5 years ago

I tested it on bullseye, so I had to change nothing. I think, the thing you have to change is replacing

  export DISTRO="bullseye"

with

  export DISTRO="focal"

hereme8886• 5 years ago

Unfortunately I'm still getting:

"bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list: Permission denied"

occoder• 5 years ago

I tried it on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which is also focal, but I'm getting this error on "apt update":

  Get:4 https://repo.waydro.id focal InRelease [1,343 B]                   
  Err:4 https://repo.waydro.id focal InRelease
    The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 959FE34E90E51522
  Reading package lists... Done
  W: GPG error: https://repo.waydro.id focal InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 959FE34E90E51522
  E: The repository 'https://repo.waydro.id focal InRelease' is not signed.

Is that an issue with the waydroid repository, or with my setup?

jijji• 5 years ago

instead of export DISTRO=.... use: export DISTRO=`grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/lsb-release |awk -F= '{print $2}'`

marcodiego15• 5 years ago

Just installed it. First impressions:

* The good

  - It is very responsive and smooth

  - Install just following instructions described

  - F-droid works

  - Apps installed from F-droid works

  - Full screen videos from Newpipe play smoothly

* The bad

  - Had to enable "invert colors" to get correct colors

  - Mouse scroll is inverted

  - Can't choose correct layout of physical keyboard because android thinks there's no physical keyboard connected

  - Android gestures on the desktop are annoying

  - Can't access whole screen of vertical apps and they appear sideways on my screen

  - Multiwindow mode didn't work at first

* The ugly:

  - Nothing is actually ugly. Everything mostly works as expected

marcodiego15• 5 years ago

And this one is

   - Sent from my waydroid

electrikjesus8• 5 years ago

Love it

the_third_wave2• 5 years ago

One thing to add to The bad/The ugly:

- requires Wayland - does not seem to work with X11

This makes it a no-go for many a potential user.

dolmen• 5 years ago

Thanks. That explains the "Way" prefix for the project name, I suppose.

syntaxing• 5 years ago

Whoa this is awesome, curious if I can run a WhatsApp matrix bridge with this

CatsEyes• 5 years ago

Does the Live Captioning feature work in Waydroid?

julienfr112• 5 years ago

Is there a way it will run on a mac M1 ?

DreamFlasher• 5 years ago

Is it running on any cloud (aws, gcp, azure)?

Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

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