How would I go about running Whatsapp on Librem5?

I’m probably traveling abroad later this year and after failing to install Android dual boot on SD on a test backup L5, I went ahead and installed evil GAPPS Waydroid on an SD for my daily driver. This is of course tainting what I had long aspired to be a taint-free machine, but I aspired to escape the compulsory “Android phone in a faraday cage for backup just in case” idea that I sometimes used on shorter travels.

A friend who plans to travel overseas later on on a different trip than me said they were told to use Whatsapp as their main communication tool overseas. After I sent them a long blurb about how Ive never used it but I reckon its just a Facebook rebranding of Signal, and Signal is already some CIA funded thing (probably honeypot), after giving my piece about how that means Whatsapp sucks, I downloaded it in my evil GAPPS Waydroid dual boot to practice being forced by other people to use an app I don’t like for what it might be like when I’m overseas.

My friend tried calling me and their was no audio in either direction. I restarted Waydroid with the HKS set to power on Audio but still no dice. Is that expected? Is the microphone expected to work in waydroid?

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