A with most things, this has come up before and discussed at length. About authenticators and MS authenticator, see at least these three threads:
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For me Waydroid is no option. Its a waste of money, energy, privacy and time. Just have some old lineageos for some not daily used apps by hand and in usage. For the Rest and Most of my privacy i have ma Librem5. The Android is offline, without battery if i not need to use it (like for social exchange - mostly over fediverse). Surveillance Code are stay in Alphabet/Apple/Meta/Microsoft Apps and will leak if you use it, so minimize the time for that and your own dependency on it. Apps are like your Car or public cameras… they snitching on you.
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Any idea on how to get the landscape fullscreen working? The app does work amazingly otherwise, but every time I try to get the full landscape view, waydroid doesnt resize properly inside PureOS.
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You have to start the container with the L5 in landscape mode for Waydroid landscape mode to work😐
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Well thats not a solution… Lol. But I appreciate the tip.
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I mean it’s a solution to the question you asked. It’s not a solution for getting waydroid to dynamically resize when rotated, but that wasn’t the question asked. Even if it could be inferred as the long term desire from the added context.
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Yes, I was able to do that. Initially I didn’t. Pretty sure all I did was:
sudo waydroid init -s GAPPS -f then followed Google Play Certification - Waydroid so I didn’t get relentless notifications.
(Sorry that’s just GAPPS working. I don’t know about the MS Authenticator)
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I tried that too. Although installation is not a issue, the MS Authenticator configuration does not go through. Thanks for the suggestion though
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I just used a workout app, 7 Minute Workout, with Waydroid on my Librem 5. Super useful!
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Hi!
It have been quite some time since you (@dos ) did your great job in porting Waydroid to Librem 5. As I can see, the upstream since then have moved forward. Were your fixes included upstream? Or should I try to rebase your changes onto the latest version from upstream and try to build it myself?
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Just saying:
Back when I was having issues connecting my Waydroid to the internet (it could never get a connection, despite having access everywhere else outside of Waydroid). I had tried everything, firewall permissions, uninstalling and re-installing again, etc just doing different things.
I don’t know why, but after a distro update, all a sudden Waydroid now had internet access.
That was maybe more than a year ago mind you. I don’t use it that often, but I have now always enjoyed the experience of using it when needed.
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Waydroid on postmarketos runs fairly well with the following observations:
- after wake from suspend bridge connection isnt enabled or active, running wayland session stop, start sometimes works
- newpipe does not play any videos
- sometimes when starting session full screen ui and the phosh keyboard is unfolded the wayland session shrinks to size above keyboard and does not restore fully
- copy paste initially works but stops working after a while maybe also related to wake from suspend
- i had to create to swap files total 4GB so i wasnt running out of memory
- when you swipe up to close the container it doesnt appear to properly stop or suspend session, and you have to do that from the terminal otherwise it wont start selecting waydroid app icon or any android app icon
- its a little buggy and freezes at times or ignores touch input and switching away to linux apps causes them to run pretty slow
- phone gets pretty hot and doesnt run optimized or maybe doesnt offload enough to GPU
- camera does not work
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Has anyone had any success getting Waydroid to run on Mobian Trixie? I added the Waydroid Trixie repository, but I am not sure how to resolve the policykit-1 dependency. It appears that it was replaced by polkitd & pkexec, and creating a symbolic link from these to where policykit-1 is expected did not seem to do the trick, or maybe I did it wrong.
I previously had success running it of course on Byzantanium, but the installation process has changed since then (much simpler I may add, just one command to install).
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Yes, waydroid is running on Mobian trixie. With same limitations as on Byzanthium (no access to camera). I don’t remember having troubles to install it.
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I just set up MS Authenticator in my Waydroid and it works fine, I’m able to authenticate with push notifications. I used GAPPS and the Google Play Store.
I would like to try again with MicroG (which I understand also supports push notifications?) and Aurora Store instead of my personal Google account that I’m trying to get rid of, but at least the urgent requirement of being able to log in to my work system is satisfied. I could not scan the QR code but was able to type a code and URL and it was satisfied.
I still have two Android applications I can’t live without (banking, and another work-related second factor), and they need the camera to scan 2D codes (I think not QR, but similar). I tried some time ago to set up a fake camera serving a static image, the plan being to take a picture of the code with the Librem5 camera app, then pass it to that fake camera pipe, so the apps think they’re having a live view.
Maybe I’ll try again. Anyone did something similar yet?
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Workaround here:
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Is there a workaround for a pin being required or does your deployment not require a PIN?
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That hasn’t been an issue for me. I guess, as you say, that my employer set it like that, not to require a PIN…
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