Librem 5 application support

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There is no support for Android apps on Librem 5.

I’m using Android apps on my Librem 5 just fine with Waydroid. In the linked threads you could find working instructions how to set it up:

Anyone Successfully Run WayDroid on Librem 5?

Since all the needed dependencies have finally migrated into byzantium and upstream images have been fixed today, I’ve written a guide on how to install and configure Waydroid on Librem 5. It’s about to become much simpler in a week or two once libglibutil, libgbinder, gbinder-python and maybe even waydroid itself show up in the repositories, however, for now you’ll have to build them yourselves - but don’t worry, all you have to do that is to follow the instructions Enjoy!

Anbox is not supported on Librem 5:

Anbox on Byzanthium

Anbox is not going to work anymore unless it gets updated to not rely on ashmem in the kernel, which is unlikely. If you need to go back to your Android container to access something in it, you should temporarily switch back to 5.17 kernel. I’ve started working on getting Waydroid usable on L5 and made some progress, but it will take some time until all fixes flow down through all needed components. (I have that blinking already fixed \o/)