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label: Linux
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# Linux
You can download this app on Android, Android TV, and FireTV Stick. However, it is unfortunately not avaliable on IOS or on desktop, but you can use tools like [!badge variant="primary" size="l" icon="https://github.com/waydroid.png" text="Waydroid"](https://waydro.id/) or [!badge variant="primary" size="l" icon="https://github.com/anbox.png" text="Anbox"](https://anbox.io/) to emulate android apps on linux.
Waydroid
## Install WayDroid
### Fedora 36
> **NOTE: Kernels 5.18.18 to 5.19.5 are broken**
1. Add the Copr repository
```sh
sudo dnf copr enable aleasto/waydroid
```
2. Install waydroid
```sh
sudo dnf install waydroid
```
When launching waydroid from the application menu you'll be asked to initialize waydroid with some android images. Use the following links:
System OTA: `https://ota.waydro.id/system`
Vendor OTA: `https://ota.waydro.id/vendor`
> NOTE: THIS WILL DOWNLOAD NON-FREE COMPONENTS (ffmpeg, possibly others)
### Ubuntu 22.04
- Install Pre-requisites
```sh
sudo apt install curl ca-certificates -y
```
- The Repo
Add the repo to your sources.list (for droidian & ubports, this step can be skipped)
Replace DISTRO="jammy" with your current target. Options: focal, jammy, ubuntu-devel, bookworm, bullseye, sid
```sh
export DISTRO="jammy"
```
```sh
sudo curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -Sf https://repo.waydro.id/waydroid.gpg --output /usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg && \
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg] https://repo.waydro.id/ $DISTRO main" > ~/waydroid.list && \
sudo mv ~/waydroid.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list && \
sudo apt update
```
- Install Waydroid
```sh
sudo apt install waydroid -y
```
Then start Waydroid from the applications menu.
----
### GPU Requirements
Waydroid currently works best with Intel GPUs. They should work out of the box.
AMD GPUs appear to have mixed results (in particular, the _RX 6800_ does not work); if Waydroid does _not_ work you might also want to try the NVIDIA instructions below.
NVIDIA GPUs do _not_ work currently, but there are 2 workarounds:
- Switch to integrated graphic card if possible;
- Use software rendering:
- Make sure that you have already run `waydroid init` (see [#Installation](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Installation) section)
- Edit `/var/lib/waydroid/waydroid_base.prop` and set:
```
ro.hardware.gralloc=default
ro.hardware.egl=swiftshader
```
- [Restart](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Restart "Restart") the `waydroid-container.service`.
## Install and Run Android Applications
Waydroid is able to perform a few various operations found by using the waydroid app -h command:
```
usage: waydroid app [-h] {install,remove,launch,list} ...
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
subaction:
{install,remove,launch,list}
install push a single package to the container and install it
remove remove single app package from the container
launch start single application
list list installed applications
```
To launch an app ising CLI, you would want to use the waydroid app launch command:
```sh
waydroid app launch xyz.apk
```
You can also install Android applications from the command line.
```sh
waydroid app install xyz.apk
```
The apk files you will sometimes find on the internet tend to only have arm support, and will therefore not work on x86_64.
You may want to install [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/) to get applications graphically. Note that the Google Play Store will not work as is, because it relies on the proprietary Google Play Services, which are not installed.
## Waydroid Prop Options
Waydroid uses various properties in order to tell the underlying Android system how to behave in a few places. To do this, we use the `waydroid prop` command. To unset a prop, `waydroid prop set ""`
### Properties
- waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.multi_windows true/false (bool) Enables/Disables persistent freeform window mode
- waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.invert_colors true/false (bool) Swaps the color space from RGBA to BGRA (only works with our patched mutter so far)
- waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.height_padding 0-9999 (int) Adjust Height padding (30 will allow you to use navbar on mobile)
- waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.width_padding 0-9999 (int) Adjust width padding
- waydroid prop set waydroid.display_width 0-9999 (int) (auto-generated) Auto generated size of Waydroid screen
- waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.width 0-9999 (int) Used for user to override desired resolution
- waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.suspend true/false (bool) Keep Waydroid awake and do not let container sleep
## Setting up a shared folder
Setting up a shared folders to copy files from `source` to `target`.
> `Source` files will be accessible from `Target` but not Editable.
```sh
sudo mount --bind
```
> We will setup the `host` folder to copy files from the host, and the `droid` folder to copy files from waydroid.
Example:
- Copy files from Linux to Waydroid:
- on Waydroid Create a `/Waydroid/host` folder
- on Host Create a `~/Waydroid/host` folder
```sh
mkdir ~/Waydroid/host
```
- Bind Linux folder to the Android one
```sh
sudo mount --bind ~/Waydroid/host ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Waydroid/host
```
- Copy files from Waydroid to Linux :
- on Waydroid Create a `/Waydroid/droid` folder
- on Host Create a `~/Waydroid/droid` folder
```sh
mkdir ~/Waydroid/droid
```
- Bind Linux folder to the Android one
```sh
sudo mount --bind ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Waydroid/droid ~/Waydroid/droid
```
## Clipboard
> Replace `dnf` with the appropriate command for your distro.
- Install pip
```sh
sudo dnf install pip
```
- install wl-clipboard
```sh
sudo dnf install wl-clipboard
```
- install pyclip
```sh
pip install --upgrade pip pyclip
```
- add `$HOME/.local/bin/` to your $PATH
add
```
export PATH="$PATH:$(du "$HOME/.local/bin/" | cut -f2 | tr '\n' ':' | sed 's/:*$//')"
```
to the appropriate file `.zshenv` or `.bashrc` or `.profile`
- reboot the system
