I tried using Waydroid on Linux Mint (Edge) only to have it not work and realized that it requires Wayland, and Mint uses X11. So I used VirtualBox to install Fedora 40 Gnome which does use Wayland.
I installed Waydroid as per the instructions and am having seemingly the same issue as on Mint. After downloading “Vanilla” Android and clicking “Done” everything exits out. So I launch the Waydroid application but nothing ever happens.
I then try to manually start Waydroid in terminal but always get “ERROR: WayDroid container service is already running”. Then I skip to the second step “waydroid session start” but receive “OSError: container failed to start”.
Am I doing something wrong? Is it simply because the VM is causing the issues? Or does WayDroid not work well on Fedora? Thanks
Waydroid is made for Wayland.
You can however run it on X-Server,
through a Wayland session window
(e.g. KWin_Wayland, Cage, Weston, …):
https://docs.waydro.id/faq/setting-up-waydroid-only-sessions
I wrote a tool to help improve the user experience on X-Server,
however currently it only supports KDEs Kwin_Wayland:
https://github.com/Rikj000/XWaydroid
This is interesting though at first glance seems a little over my head. I’ll read more into it. Thank you.
PS. This is another comment I can only see and reply to in my inbox. I can’t see it on my post. I don’t know if this is a Lemmy, server, or Voyager issue.
For the record, I’m able to see the comment you responded to.