How to Install Whatsapp and Discord on Librem 5

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I know it’s ironic to buy a phone built for privacy and then proceed to install two of the worst privacy offenders onto it, but there are people I want to contact who use those apps.

I thought Waydroid would let me do it, but the apps’ websites only link to the google play store, which doesn’t even load. I haven’t tried Anbox or any other VM.

If anybody has experience doing this themselves, any advice would be much appreciated.

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Camera forwarding is still largely WIP or DIY. I recommend a third party ARM Discord solution if you really want it. F-Droid and Aurora Store should help the app gap on Waydroid.

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Anbox is depreciated and should not be used.

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You can try using Beeper:

See also:

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Nwver heard of Beeper, sounds neat.

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That it does. I’ll try it out.

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For whatsapp I’m using chromium webapp. Sometimes it is quite complicated on a small screen, but it is the best that I’ve found.

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Beeper is built on top of Matrix

So, you have to send your personal authentication data to third-party bridge server or host your own.

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