I’ve installed waydroid following the instruction here:
which worked fine and out of the box. I do need an installation of the Norwegian-App (the only reason for all this hassle).
When I try it with a browser from
it ends up with an error that my Google account is not connected and I should firts use some Play Store App
How do I get this app now?
Please note: I’ve never ever used an Android…
This is what AI spilled out about, untested by me:
To use the Google Play Store on Waydroid, you must initialize Waydroid with the GAPPS system image rather than the default vanilla image, and then register your device ID to pass Google Play certification.
Initialize Waydroid with GAPPS
Stop the current Waydroid session: sudo systemctl stop waydroid
Reset the existing initialization data: sudo waydroid session stop and sudo rm -rf /var/lib/waydroid /home/waydroid (Warning: this clears current data).
Re-initialize Waydroid specifying the GAPPS flag: sudo waydroid init -s GAPPS -f
Restart the Waydroid container service: sudo systemctl start waydroid [1]
Register and Certify Your Device
Open the Google Play Store app inside Waydroid, and if it says your device is uncertified, open your Linux terminal.
Access the Waydroid container shell: sudo waydroid shell
Run this command inside the shell to get your Android ID: sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "select * from main where name = 'android_id';"
Copy the long number string returned by that command.
Go to the official Google Device Certification Page and paste your Android ID into the box to register it.
Wait a few minutes (sometimes up to 10–15 minutes) for Google to update your status, then restart Waydroid and log into your Google account.
Official Purism documentation regarding Waydroid is here: Waydroid - Purism user documentation