Anyone Successfully Run WayDroid on Librem 5?

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Unfortunately, Waydroid doesn’t have access to camera and microphone of the main system yet, once it does, I can afford to migrate completely to the Librem 5.

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I can confirm that it has microphone access. To download the right way use
Anyone Successfully Run WayDroid on Librem 5?

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That’s good news, as I’ve been busy and haven’t checked for it.

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Alright, Ive been trying to get waydroid setup to replace the things pureos doesnt do well yet. The one thing I cannot get to work anywhere is youtube. Anyone know of a browser, or app, or set of instructions to get it working anywhere in waydroid? Any help would be appreciated. Its one of the few things holding it back as being dailyable for me.

Or if anyone knows how to get a good experience on pureos outside the stock browser and firefox lmk.

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YouTube app or YouTube online?

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Yeah? They both suck.

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Am using Freetube runs great on PureOS

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I make audio calls daily in Skype under Waydroid. No problem there.

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I’m not sure I look forward too much to see this implemented. For us it should be ok, flip the hardware switch off and be done.

But it would be unfortunate for privacy for apps in Waydroid to just be probing bluetooth without strict access controls - not sure how much Android offers out of the box and how reliable it is.

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Well, I haven’t seen anyone working on it yet, so you should be safe for a while :wink:

That said, since for proper integration access would have to be proxied out of the container onto the host, it could easily be implemented in a way that would let you disable the integration when you don’t intend to use it.

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You can use NewPipe. It works by scrapping YouTube pages and thus does not depend on anything.

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Yeah ! NewPipe is the best open-source YouTube client yet. :partying_face:

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Yeh, I did run it successfully but uninstalled it. I figured I was trying to get away from android stuff by getting my L5’s with pureOS on it why do I need 'droid stuff on my phone. I can do with a little bit of inconvenience until more apps begin to populate the pureOS app store. Just went to show me how dependent I was on convenience.

I believe that we who expect convenience and security will have to sacrifice one for the other, especially in a digital world.

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Yup…
So far, I only NEED Waydroid for my bank 2FA and for the application of my hometown’s DMV (you need the app to be able to generate a login for the webpage haha, then you don´t need the app anymore).

And I have signal there because I just gave up on figuring it out natively. I check my messages once per day.

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I’m encountering this same symptom, though I’m following your updated instructions that include this line.

Do you happen to know if there’s a newer link perhaps or maybe something else that has changed in this time?

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I’ve been enjoying playing with waydroid. In general I feel like it’s pretty responsive. The app to rent bikes here required google services so I figured out how to do that (not that I want to) and self certify it. Couple issues so far are video playback (instagram) and location services either don’t pass through or it’s just the curse of gps on the Librem 5. Never did get that bike app working in the end. :frowning: All the same very cool, and hoping things keep improving. :slight_smile:

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For sure you don’t want location services to pass through by default. However it is entirely possible that there is still work to be done to make that work anyway.

Obviously you can fault isolate that by verifying your location directly with GNSS on the phone i.e. natively, not inside the anti-spying container.

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I would agree with that, though I still need it for the bike share app. :frowning:

I have got a fix on my phone in the past using the terminal. At least I think it was a fix. I would not call GPS a good experience on the phone just yet though. So yah, I’m sure the phone itself wouldn’t have had it’s own fix (outside of wifi) while I was playing with it.

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For troubleshooting GPS I do recommend checking out what dos guided me through here: Is GPS supposed to work? - #14 by dos

It’s not perfect, but I do wonder if your experience stems from the same problems.

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Has anyone been able to configure MS Authenticator on Waydroid for using it with a corporate account? Does it work?

I haven’t tried it yet but will using GAPPS image instead of Vanilla image for Lineage OS work?

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