A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on regular GNU/Linux systems running Wayland based desktop environments.
You might wonder, "Why not just install a VPN?" While VPNs are superior for encrypting the actual torrent traffic, portable proxies fill a specific gap:
Inside your portable Firefox, pre-install these extensions (they save to the USB profile):
A Virtual Private Network creates an encrypted tunnel.
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Waydroid brings all the apps you love, right to your desktop, working side by side your Linux applications.
The Android inside the container has direct access to needed hardwares.
The Android runtime environment ships with a minimal customized Android system image based on LineageOS. The used image is currently based on Android 13
Our documentation site can be found at docs.waydro.id
Bug Reports can be filed on our repo Github Repo
Our development repositories are hosted on Github
Please refer to our installation docs for complete installation guide.
You can also manually download our images from
SourceForge
For systemd distributions
Follow the install instructions for your linux distribution. You can find a list in our docs.
After installing you should start the waydroid-container service, if it was not started automatically:
sudo systemctl enable --now waydroid-container
Then launch Waydroid from the applications menu and follow the first-launch wizard.
If prompted, use the following links for System OTA and Vendor OTA:
https://ota.waydro.id/system
https://ota.waydro.id/vendor
For further instructions, please visit the docs site here
You might wonder, "Why not just install a VPN?" While VPNs are superior for encrypting the actual torrent traffic, portable proxies fill a specific gap:
Inside your portable Firefox, pre-install these extensions (they save to the USB profile):
A Virtual Private Network creates an encrypted tunnel.
Torrent proxies die quickly. Domain seizure is common. To keep your portable toolkit alive for months without internet access to fetch new lists, adopt these strategies:
Here are the members of our team