Aplicativos de Android

Waydroid is a minimal Android container and compatibility layer to run Android apps on GNU/Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu Touch.

Nota

You will need to execute commands on your Ubuntu Touch device (locally via the terminal application or remotely via ADB/SSH ) to initialize Waydroid, install APKs and uninstall applications.

Limitations

Before installing Waydroid on your device, please note that there are limitations to its support and integration:

  • After installing Waydroid on Ubuntu Touch, you may notice higher battery consumption. To mitigate this, Waydroid can be stopped manually when not in use.

  • Not all Android applications will work with Waydroid. Apps that require Google’s Play Integrity service or SafetyNet, such as banking apps, are unlikely to run.

  • Problems may occur if both Ubuntu Touch and Waydroid request the use of the same peripherals, and one will not be able to claim them (e.g. camera access not permitted).

How to set up

All Halium 9 and newer devices ship with waydroid out of the box starting with Ubuntu Touch focal, if your device fits these requirements you can follow the following steps

  • Open a shell on your Ubuntu Touch device (remotely with ADB/SSH or locally with the terminal app).

  • Run the following command in your shell: waydroid init.

  • Feito! É posible que teña que actualizar o alcance dos aplicativos (tirar cara abaixo desde o centro da pantalla e soltar) para que aparezan os novos aplicativos de Android.

Como instalar APKs novos

  • Copy the APK to /home/phablet/Downloads on your Ubuntu Touch device.

  • Open a shell on your Ubuntu Touch device (remotely with ADB/SSH or locally with the terminal app).

  • Run the following in your shell waydroid app install /home/phablet/Downloads/my-app.apk

  • Feito! É posible que teña que actualizar o alcance dos aplicativos (tirar cara abaixo desde o centro da pantalla e soltar) para que aparezan os novos aplicativos de Android.

Using an appstore in Waydroid

You can also install an appstore like F-Droid or Amazon Appstore to install applications or keeping them up to date. If you want to install any of the above apps you can find them here:

Note that due to nature of Waydroid, neither of these will automatically keep your applications up-to-date. You will have to manually open the appstore and check for updates. Additionally you will have to authorize each app install or update as follows:

  • search for the app to install or update

  • press the install or update button

  • wait for the download to finish, there will be a prompt to install the application/update

  • press the install button on the above prompt

For more advanced users this could be remedied by building a custom waydroid image that ships with either appstore.

Como desinstalar aplicativos

  • Open a shell on your Ubuntu Touch device (remotely with ADB/SSH or locally with the terminal app).

  • To uninstall apps from the Ubuntu Touch device, run adb uninstall [APP_ID] in your shell

  • Run the following in your shell waydroid app remove [APP_ID] (you can find the APP_ID by using “waydroid app list”)

  • Done! You might have to pull down from the app list for the old Android apps to go away.

Nota

If you are using an appstore in waydroid you can also uninstall apps through said appstore

Acceder ao almacenamento de Android

The Android storage is located at /home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0.

  • As ligazóns a bibliotecas de Android pódense facer nos seus homólogos XDG respectivos:

    ln -s ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Documents ~/Documents/android
ln -s ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Pictures ~/Pictures/android
ln -s ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Music ~/Music/android
ln -s ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Movies ~/Videos/android

Solución de problemas

  • When you are installing an APK, but run into the following error Invalid APK file, this could simply mean that it could not find the apk file. Try the following steps to double check:

    • Check that you typed the filename correctly.

    • If the APK does not reside in the folder you are in when you run adb, you have to specify the full path, e.g. /home/phablet/Downloads/my-app.apk instead of just my-app.apk

Información de erros

Please report any bugs you come across. Bugs concerning Ubuntu Touch are reported in the normal Ubuntu Touch tracker and issues with Waydroid are reported on our waydroid issue tracker. Thank you!