#WayDroid

Has anyone succeeded in making #Whatsapp on #Waydroid work?

Please boost.

#FOSS #Android #Linux #opensource

@OpenComputeDesign @s31bz @light @admitsWrongIfProven

good feedback! i think #furiphone has support for #android apps (#waydroid iirc?) and back in the day so did #jolla / #sailfish - i think you can get those on a #sony these days

also i've run android-x86 in vm and its alright but idk what those apps are gonna try. supposedly only finance apps are allowed by google to check for a rooted phone but ... who knows https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

@gael There's mention of a few abandoned projects in the F-Droid forum... What about if you run it on a server using something like #KasmWorkspaces with #WayDroid, #BlissOS, #AnboxCloud, #Puter, etc.?

https://anbox-cloud.io/

Depending on how much you want to showcase... if it's just the UI perhaps you can recreate it in a #Penpot project and share?

The Pine Phone Pro arrived earlier this week. After a few unfocused, false starts I finally got it booting into Gnome and currently installing Waydroid over ssh.

My wife uses a cheesey coupon clipping app (iOS/Android) for doing the groceries and such. I'll need to take a look at what traffic flows in-n-out of this app to see what is being farmed and segregate/container off if required.

We are heavy Signal users but I may use this as an excuse to set up a XMPP server. Twas on the 'roadmap'.

Initial impressions are good. Definitely not as shiny and smooth as an iOS or Android device but - it's a phone. We spent half our lives with dumb rotary dialing doohickeys - we'll survive. lol

Pretty impressed with Gnome on a touch device so far. This is my first real experience with it. No 'klunkiness' so far but just scratching the surface.

It will be interesting to see how a non-technical person takes to it. I'm going to monkey with it myself for the first week or so to find the hard edges to save her the frustration.

I want to experiment with Android Auto - see what (if anything) is possible.

I also obtained a Seeed Studio Sensecap T1000-E (meshtastic, lora, etc.) to connect to this device. We'll see how far I get with that.

I really need a staff... Ha!

#Pine64 #PinePhone #PinePhonePro #Gnome #Waydroid #Android #iOS #Linux #ssh #AndroidAuto #SeeedStudio #Meshtastic #Lora #LoraWan

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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@pocketvj I just found out mautrix-signal cannot register as the primary device. It uses device linking. So it still needs a second phone that runs Android or iOS.

That doesn't just not solve the issue, it also weakens security compared to other solutions.

So the gold standard remains just running the Signal Android client using #waydroid, which I have been doing on my #Furilabs #FLX1 for several months now.

Big News!

BlissLabs has been selected to showcase Waydroid & Bliss OS at #FOSSASIA2025 in Bangkok (March 13-15)!

Honored to be alongside Mozilla Common Voice, Google Open Source, AWS, & more shaping open-source tech!

First-Time Demos
Waydroid Gaming on Steam Deck
BlissOS 15 & 17 Desktop
Waydroid Automotive

Join us in person or virtually – it’s a hybrid event!

#Waydroid #BlissOS #FOSS #Linux #AndroidOnLinux #Innovation #TechForGood #BlissLabs #OpenSource #FutureOfComputing

Ubuntu Touch in 2025: Is It a Viable Mobile OS Alternative?
https://techrefreshing.com/ubuntu-touch-in-2025/
#UbuntuTouch #LinuxMobile #PrivacyFirst #OpenSource #UBports #UbuntuTouch2025 #MobileOS #TechNews #Waydroid #FOSS #AndroidAlternative

@F3715H @taedryn @alice @fdroidorg even works with #WayDroid or a #degoogled device...

In meinem neuen Video stelle ich das FuriPhone FLX1 im Detail vor! Erfahrt alles über dieses spannende Gerät, das auf Mobian basiert und dank Waydroid auch Android-Apps ausführen kann.

Im Unboxing-Teil zeige ich, wie das Phone bei mir ankam, und wir gehen gemeinsam die ersten Schritte zur Inbetriebnahme durch. Schaut rein!

https://youtu.be/cnIgkF3OzMs

https://www.spacefun.ch/linux-videos#linuxmobile1

#FuriPhone #Mobian #Waydroid #Linux #LinuxMobile #Unboxing

@meneer

Nee, de #Librem5 is geen Android phone. Het operating system is #PureOS, een op #Debian gebaseerde #Linux-distributie. Misschien zou het mogelijk zijn via #Waydroid, maar daar heb ik geen ervaring mee. Ik gebruik alleen native Linux-apps. Uit de PureOS-repository en van #Flathub:

https://flathub.org/apps/search?q=weather

@sibrosan

@nicholasr @LinaroLtd the container solutions are great for user-space (I use #waydroid to run #minecraft for example). However if you want to validate kernel architectural behaviour or interactions between VMs you have to emulate the whole system.

From purely software standpoint of view, why is faking phone's TPM so difficult in order for Waydroid to pass SafetyNet?

I'm even willing to hook old Android phone to PC to use as safetynet device, but I can't find people has done such yet.

#Waydroid #PlayStore #Android #Linux

@cliffwade I run #Linux, #Linux, #KaiOS, and #Linux

The respective devices are: desktop, laptop, phone, and secondary phone (that I carry in situations where I might have to suddenly book a ticket or something)

Bonus: my #Kobo eReader technically runs Linux, albeit with a proprietary frontend (I still get #SSH and #busybox though!)

I also run #Waydroid on my Linux phone for a few stuff; that's not really a "device" though

I can take a photo or video from WhatsApp Web on #librem5 using #pipewire on top of #libcamera with software IPA. The funny part is that I can't, yet, doi the same thing with native WhatsApp on #WayDroid.

@talpa yes, very. Now looking if everything works as expected.
Regarding your questions, the phone is running Gnome46 with Kernel 4.19.191. Modified by furilabs of course. Phosh is the launcher and they use #waydroid, so android containers. For when you need those apps.

This week's donation went to the Waydroid project. Waydroid is a container that allows you to run Android apps on a Linux OS. This is especially useful when trying to run certain apps on a mobile Linux phone that you can't get otherwise. The Android runtime environment ships with a minimal customized Android system image based on LineageOS. The code is licensed using GPLv3.0. The program can be compiled from source on Github, comes preinstalled on certain distros such as FuriOS or there are install instructions available on the project website.

The project has an official site here:

https://waydro.id/#install

The team has a presence on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#waydroid:matrix.org

The source code is available on Github:

https://github.com/waydroid

If you wish to help the project financially they accept donations through Open Collective:

https://opencollective.com/waydroid

#waydroid #opencollective #github #foss #mobilelinux

Welcome to #waydroid on :)
#android #arch #archlinux #linux

@tripplehelix

You mean via something like #Waydroid?

Or are you referring to #Alpine packages?

The hardware support is such a bugbear, though. It'd be nice if they started using #Halium

@frumble Oh... Sorry...

Wundert mich allerdings dass #Google #ChromeOS einstampfen will.

Weil ich hätte eher damit gerechnet dass die auf #FuchsiaOS migrieren und die #Android-Kompatibilität alla #Waydroid beibehalten!