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Waydroid

Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system.

Installation

In Parch Linux there is a script called waydroid-helper^PPR^ which can be used to install waydroid with a non-gapps image (an android image without google apps such as play store ) on Parch Linux.

For start you need to install the Script from Parch Packages Repository:

sudo pacman -S waydroid-helper

Checking system requirements

To check whether if your system is compatible with waydroid, you need to run waydroid-checker script.

waydroid-checker

After running it you will be prompted with this screen:

waydroid-checker1.png

Click on Start Test to begin.

waydroid-checker2.png

After the test is finished, if your CPU passed you can continue with the installation

Installing Waydroid

you can run the waydroid-installer script to begin the installation:

waydroid-installer

Post Installation

After the installation is finished you should init waydroid:

sudo waydroid init

after its done, if you are on wayland you can run waydroid from your application menu.

X11

For running waydroid under X11 You need to run waydroid-x11 from terminal:

waydroid-x11

It would launch waydroid in your x11 session like XFCE, Mate etc... under weston.