Running Android Apps inside Kicksecure - Waydroid

[nurmagoz]

From my testing, Waydroid appears to be very buggy and not fully compatible with the default Kicksecure at the moment. For example:

• Kicksecure uses xfce 4.18, which still doesn’t support Wayland by default.

• Installing KDE, which supports Wayland, will cause the sdwdate-gui systray not to appear because it doesn’t support Wayland (there’s a ticket already open for this).

• Waydroid has blocking issues when running on Debian, even if iptables is installed:

  • Issue 903
  • Issue 900

Installing waydroid inside kicksecure stopped here.

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Reversing the ways:

Install Kicksecure inside Waydroid-Linux customized Debian version:

• They say it’s based on Debian bookworm, which is stable, but actually, if you install the OS, the repos are sid, not bookworm. A ticket has been created:

  Waydroid-Linux say its based on debian bookworm but using sid repos? · Issue #1027 · waydroid/waydroid · GitHub

• Blocker: Kicksecure doesn’t support the unstable Debian version.

Installing Kicksecure inside waydroid stopped here.

[Nagi]

We recommend trying Genymotion!

It worked.

[arraybolt3]

I have, in the past, gotten Waydroid to run under an X11 session with the help of Weston (running in windowed mode). It’s finicky and fiddly, but it works for the most part.

[nurmagoz]

@Nagi

We recommend trying Genymotion!

Non-free software OS.

[nurmagoz]

@arraybolt3

I have, in the past, gotten Waydroid to run under an X11 session with the help of Weston (running in windowed mode). It’s finicky and fiddly, but it works for the most part.

It just doesnt work no matter what check:

Running Android Apps inside Whonix-Workstation - Waydroid

[Patrick]

@Nagi

Genymotion

Quote Kicksecure ™ Policy On Non-Freedom Software

• Unsolicited recommendations of non-freedom applications; for example - “How do I use remote support?” Answer: “Use anydesk” (prohibited).