Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.
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 the LineageOS. The used image is currently based on Android 11.
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If you have found an issue with Waydroid, please file a bug.
If you want to get in contact with the developers please feel free to join the Waydroid groups in
We'd like to say thanks to all these great teams & projects: @Anbox @LineageOS @Android-x86 @spurv @LXC and many others, for you still lead the way for Open Innovation in Linux and the Android community.