Ah, thanks for this info. I was under the impression, Anbox works “like WINE”. Are there any experiences how Waydroid influences the battery runtime?
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Can the user spoof some input towards the Waydroid? For example, fake phone number, fake IMSI, fake GEO location?
Are cases of escaping the Waydroid container known?
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With enough effort and some patches, all of that should be possible 
I’m not aware of ready solutions though.
I’m pretty sure someone will find one once they start seriously looking, so don’t rely on it as a security boundary - it isn’t one.
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You are breaking my heart. The Waydroid idea certainly sounds like a security boundary even if not bulletproof.
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Hi All, anyone got google play store working ?
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I have xclip… still no clipbpard
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A big shout of thanks to everyone on this thread. thanks to @weirdnerd for starting it, and especially @dos for the backend work and instructions.
the instructions worked great for me. I"ve got waydroid installed and running. I’m impressed by the performance, very responsive. In particular, @dos thanks for the tips on freezing and resuming! that really makes it easy to manage the power consumption!
I’m testing use of waydroid for email clients like protonmail and tutanota, as well as signal. At this point, I got them all running and their responsiveness is nice. I’ll have to see how notifications work. With signal, it won’t be for audio/video calls obviously since there is no access to those devices. But, my family uses signal, so chatting is helpful. I was able to do a backup/restore, from my android phone and that worked well.
@dos, one question about file exchange. Is there an easy and secure way to share a file between L5 and waydroid? I saw what you mentioned for installing privileged apps with /var/lib/waydroid/overlay but, can that work for file exchange? can I access that location from within waydroid? I’m asking because if I get an email attachment using a protonmail app, in WD, I’d like to use the L5 tools to work with the file. and vice versa. To get my Signal backup file into WD, I had to put the file in a cloud location, then access it from the browser. wondering if there is an easier way to do this?
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Install and use syncthing for that
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Overlays are meant for modifying system images. While they can be used for data sharing, it’s a massive overkill 
Use adb connect as described in the guide and simply move files around via adb like you would with a regular Android phone with adb push / adb pull. You can also access the data partition directly in ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/, but you’ll have to be careful about file permissions there.
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Thanks @dos. that makes sense. I haven’t used adb push/pull before. So, it will be good to learn that.
@Lionel, I tried syncthing on the L5, but couldn’t get that to work.
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guys anyway to show waydroid apps on posh drawer ? waydroid boots up each time i close and open it.
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Hi All, today there were new images (system and vendor) available and i updated then unfortunately. waydroid stopped working had to delete the images and redownload images it gave some glitches
(resolution changed and spacebar was missing from android keyboard) was fixed after reboot.
@dos s there a way to update the android images ?
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I’m running Librem 5 with postmarketOS and Waydroid. The best of both worlds!
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hi @freeguru how did you get waydroid to work? i tried it and eachtime the phone becomes unresponsive. had to remove the battery to reboot the phone.
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First of all, I switched from PureOS to postmarketOS (phosh). PureOS regularly crashed (bootloop) and with postmarketOS I have no problems with that. For me, pmOS is therefore more stable than PureOS. By the way, I put pmOS on the Librem 5 using pmbootstrap (1). The pmOS website contains a description of how you can install Waydroid (using the terminal) (2).
(1) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Purism_Librem5_(purism-librem5)#With_pmbootstrap_.28Advanced.29
(2) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid
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Gamechanger. No longer use my Android phone and solely using my Librem 5 now. Thanks for everyone involved who contributed to this. This takes a huge burden off of carrying two phones around. I noticed this thread a few months ago but I had tried Anbox back when I first received my Librem5 in summer. Waydroid is definitely a plus and if there’s no internet connection in android I just restart the container.
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@dos Is it now “much simpler” after four weeks and does your installation guide reflect this, i.e. was updated?
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The guide wasn’t updated, but the last component (gbinder-python) has been already uploaded and is waiting for archive processing - should arrive in byzantium in a matter of days.
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Is this the python3-gbinder package that has just arrived in landing? I decided to wait for the “much simpler” approach to materialise, and I’m looking forward to trying this out 
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