Anyone Successfully Run WayDroid on Librem 5?

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Anbox on Byzanthium

At first glance, it looks like microphone integration is working since I could record stuff inside Waydroid, but no camera integration… yet? Yes and yes. The container is able to connect to host’s PulseAudio. Android doesn’t know what to do with our cameras though and it isn’t likely to change anytime soon. Also, Waydroid seems to automatically create .desktop files inside ~/.local/share/applications/ with each APK installed. But the shortcuts are not showing on Phosh… yet? …

@dos says

Android doesn’t know what to do with our cameras though and it isn’t likely to change anytime soon.

Librem 5 - is it the software or the hardware?

It’s not the same. The live preview is not compressed in any way, the video stream to send over the internet must be encoded. Encoding needs lots more compute power.

@dcz says

[…] video stream to send over the internet must be encoded. Encoding needs lots more compute power.

… so I wouldn’t be too hopeful on that point. However I saw somewhere (not in this forum, maybe on Stack Overflow?) that we can take a local image (or video?) file and make Android (the post was specifically talking about WayDroid) believe it’s a camera. At least for QR codes for 2FA apps that should be enough.