Install Instructions
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Some of our friends have started putting together all the install instructions for Arch over on the arch wiki:
Thanks to the Postmarket community, you can also find instructions and troubleshooting tips on their wiki:
User @Aman9das has put together a detailed guide for installing Waydroid on Zorin OS:
A few of the contributors to sailfishos-open have put together a resource for installing Waydroid on the OS:
Waydroid can be installed from the official package repository.
After installing, launch Waydroid from the applications menu and proceed with the initialization by pasting these URLs in the OTA fields:
System OTA: https://ota.waydro.id/system
Vendor OTA: https://ota.waydro.id/vendor
The same instructions apply to the Fedora Immutable variants, but you should use rpm-ostree instead of dnf
User @runa-chin had created a detailed guide about installing Waydroid on openSUSE Tumbleweed or openSUSE Slowroll:
User Mederim has come up with a guide for getting Waydroid on KISS Linux:
Waydroid can be installed from the official package repository; also check /usr/share/doc/waydroid/README.voidlinux after installation for further instructions!
For Droidian and Ubuntu Touch, skip directly to the last step
Make sure you have Wayland Session enabled (Ubuntu 22.04+)
Install pre-requisites
Add the official repository
If the script fails to detect your distribution, you can provide a valid option by appending -s <DISTRO>. Currently supported values are: mantic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, noble, bookworm, bullseye, trixie, sid
Install waydroid
Then start Waydroid from the applications menu.
NixOS community has a wiki page for WayDroid:
To start Waydroid without systemctl, you need to follow a few simple steps
Start the container first:
And in a new terminal tab, start the waydroid session (without sudo):
After that starts and you see "Android with user 0 is ready", it is safe to launch an app from the applications menu, or
(This can be run while Waydroid is running, or used to start it in full-screen mode)
First we need to set the property while a Waydroid session is running:
After that, we can restart the session:
Then we are ready to launch an app, and it will start in multi-window mode
Sometimes things don't go as planned and you need to remove it all and start over. To do that, follow the steps below:
First, make sure you have stopped the session and containers:
Then it is safe to remove Waydroid. For example, on debian or ubuntu:
After you removed Waydroid, reboot.
Then once logged back in, we need to do a little cleanup:
Then you can follow the install instructions again.
