Waydroid on Xiaomi mi a2

mschmids

@nodorf Moved from Nexus 5 to Xiaomi Mi A2 due to the, guess what, banking app and hence Waydroid. The latter installed via Waydroid Helper, which worked quite slick at the second attempt. Not sure, what exactly happened the first time, but I had to uninstall it once again.

In Waydroid/LineageOS I installed F-Droid and Aurora Store via apk. In F-Droid Settings / Repositories I added microG F-Droid repo (https://microg.org/fdroid/repo) and turned off all the other repositories, then installed microG Service Core and microG Service Framework. From Aurora Store I installed the banking app N26, which runs nicely on cellular data and crashes on wifi after login (known current limitation).

Other then this banking app, I am happy with the UT apps and do not intend to use any further Android app.

Bogotrax

@mschmids i can't get waydroid apps to work on my mi a2 - the browser e.g. just crashes and i can't access any of the other (lineage) apps. I used the waydroid helper. How do i apt waydroid? Or is there a workaround?

mschmids

@bogotrax Do you try to start the waydroid apps e.g. the browser from the UT drawer, as enabled from the waydroid helper, or the LineageOS desktop?

mkarpicki

@bogotrax please disable wifi before starting waydroid. If all works on cellular data for you (does for me)I would call it known problem reported in other threads mi a2 related...

Bogotrax

@mschmids I tried fron the UT drawer. How do you enter the lineage desktop?

mschmids

@bogotrax my UT app drawer has a Waydroid, Waydroid Helper and Waydroid Stop (as installed from Waydroid Helper) icon. The first one launches the LineageOS desktop. In fact it launches an app, labeled Waydroid, with Waydroid icon, black background and spinning circle and an app, labeled Unity 8, with the LineageOS desktop. I just close the former. In my case the default LineageOS apps do not crash with wifi, only the google based app, I installed as described in my above post, requires cellular data.

Bogotrax

@mschmids ok waydroid icon crashes and every android icon crashes both with cellular and wifi. Sadly. Can anybody post the install over the terminal or adb. Maybe i have more luck that way. It also says xdg session not wayland when i try starting waydroid from terminal. Any idea what that means?

mschmids

@bogotrax you might want to consider uninstalling then reinstalling waydroid from the helper app. The install did not work for me on the first attempt, though I do not recall the details. If you are familiar, you can dive into the command line of waydroid and the relevant log files, which might in the end point you back to the reinstall.

Bogotrax

@mschmids Hello, thanks for your support! I really appreciate it. Reinstalling sadly also didn't do it. I would install through terminal if sb could point me to a tutorial on it. Again thanks for your input!

Bogotrax

@bogotrax ok guys, it worked through apt install + waydroid init and container start. Didn't do it through libertine, so no clue if this is an appropriate approach. But even wifi works on android so it is something. Thanks guys for support!

Keneda

@bogotrax
Installing waydroid never needed libertine, those are two very different topics and uses.

Bogotrax

@keneda good to know thanks

Keneda

@bogotrax
Libertine is "only" a contener for installing standard desktop GNU/L apps that can't run directly on our mobile oriented one, as it is locked on system files for security reasons and its native apps (.click) install in a specific part.

Only common point with waydroid, liberine is experimental ^^

Datum

@nodorf ive tried everything you described but after i use helper to download lineage os, the device shuts down and restarts but the waydroid app keeps crashing. The logo pops up but the app is not loading lineage os. Could you help me how you did it exactly.

Datum

@bogotrax could you help me understand what 'container start' is and how to start it. Because waydroid app starts but displays logo and disappears

Bogotrax

Sorry i can't reproduce the process.

Bogotrax

@bogotrax

basically what i did is

sudo -s
mount -o rw,remount / && apt update && apt install waydroid && waydroid init

And then

sudo waydroid container start

And followed by

sudo waydroid session start

Both give a lot of information that look like errors. I am not able to debug this. I came to the conclusion that the waydroid helper needs just endlessly long time till it installs waydroid and then suprised me with a reboot and a working lineage after all my manually installing of waydroid.

Nodorf

@datum Sorry I missed your question, but I did exactly what explained by @Bogotrax and I also tried with the waydroid helper app and it just worked.
Pay attention that not all android apps are working properly. I tried snapchat and it was not starting. I am not using waydroid a lot as I found out I can do already most of what I need from UBPorts apps. I tried successfully Whatsapp and several banking apps but that is mostly it.