Waydroid ... how to shut it down ?

[cr9c]

Hi,
I installed Waydroid on my FP3+ and everything is going on well
Android apps which are installed there, leaves an icon in Ubuntu Touch Apps list so you can easily launch an Android App without first launch Waydroid.

But to shut down Waydroid propperly I only found through terminal as it's explained here on waydro.id

waydroid session stop
sudo waydroid container stop

... so do you know if there's another option without using terminal to stop Waydroid ?

For instance when I "slide away" waydroid as it's done for Ubuntu touch apps, Waydroid window disapears but you can't launch it again since it's running in the processuses ...

[c4pp4]

@cr9c Only 'waydroid session stop' is necessary. You need to keep the container started to launch waydroid again via menu icon.

You can create a desktop launcher to stop waydroid session.
e.g.:
/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/waydroid-stop.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Waydroid Stop
Exec=waydroid session stop
Icon=/usr/lib/waydroid/data/AppIcon.png

You can create a script to additionally remove some android icons.
e.g.
/home/phablet/waydroid-stop.sh

#!/bin/bash

waydroid session stop
rm .local/share/applications/com.android*
rm .local/share/applications/org.lineageos*

and make it executable:

chmod +x /home/phablet/waydroid-stop.sh

In that case the launcher should look like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Waydroid Stop
Exec=/home/phablet/waydroid-stop.sh
Icon=/usr/lib/waydroid/data/AppIcon.png

[cr9c]

Hi @c4pp4

@cr9c Only 'waydroid session stop' is necessary. You need to keep the container started to launch waydroid again via menu icon.

OK

You can create a desktop launcher to stop waydroid session.
e.g.:
/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/waydroid-stop.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Waydroid Stop
Exec=waydroid session stop
Icon=/usr/lib/waydroid/data/AppIcon.png

Thank's for that, good idea I didn't think about ;o)

You can create a script to additionally remove some android icons.
...

However I don't understand this about removing Android Icons ?! Is there's any link with the way to stop Waydroid ?
In what way is it useful ? Could you tel me why you wrote this ?

Thank's anyway.

[c4pp4]

@cr9c said in Waydroid ... how to shut it down ?:

However I don't understand this about removing Android Icons

If you don't want to have android icons in UT menu when waydroid is not running.

[cr9c]

@c4pp4 Thanks indeed.

[Luksus]

BTW. waydroid desktop files are perfixed with "waydroid" in current versions, like this:
waydroid.org.fdroid.fdroid.desktop

So (re)moving .local/share/applications/waydroid.*should be enough.

(Would be nice, if there were some filter in the app drawer, then we could just filter by the desktop file prefix ;-))

[cr9c]

Hi @luksus ,

And If I want to keep only one or two icons from this family "waydroid.*"
how should I proceed in the following script ... (In fact I'd like to make an exception ;o))

#!/bin/bash

waydroid session stop
rm .local/share/applications/waydroid.*

[Luksus]

@cr9c I don't know.

And I have the impression, that the desktop files, gets readded, when restarting waydroid, or when re-inititalizing... I am not sure. But it is not very comfortable to always move them away again...

[Homer]

@cr9c hi, you have to mount the fike system writable to do this, right?

[A Former User]

@luksus You can make icons hidden and the are not comming back add last not on my device to do this you can do following:

Hide launchers
If you want to keep the .desktop files but hide the launchers, add “NoDisplay=true” to those you dont want to see. The following hides all Waydroid launchers:

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid*desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Remove launchers for redundant apps:

#Calculator
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.calculator2.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Camera

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.camera2.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Contacts

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.contacts.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Email

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.email.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Clocks

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.deskclock.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Dailer

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.google.android.dialer.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Files

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.documentsui.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Gallery

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.gallery3d.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Music

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.eleven.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Browser

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.jelly.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Recorder

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.recorder.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

Calendar

for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.etar.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done

[aarontheissueguy]

@xray2000 how exactly did you use those commands? Putting them into an sh file and running it doesnt seem to work

[stanwood]

@aarontheissueguy Just spoke with Xray right now, so open terminal and type:

sudo -s
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.calculator2.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.camera2.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.contacts.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.email.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.deskclock.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.google.android.dialer.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.documentsui.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.com.android.gallery3d.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.eleven.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.jelly.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done$
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.recorder.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
for i in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.org.lineageos.etar.desktop; do echo 'NoDisplay=true' >> $i; done
clear
reboot

But not tested from my side!!!! Maybe test one of these commands and check if file is not shown anymore in your launcher. (don't forget to reboot device first)

[A Former User]

@aarontheissueguy Just ssh to your device and copy paste it line by line...

[aarontheissueguy]

@xray2000 Thanks everything except contacts is gone. I think I will write an helper app to make that things discussed in this thread easier for the average user.

[A Former User]

@aarontheissueguy I made a mistake with the contacts line i have edit it now and update it.

[stanwood]

@xray2000 Thank you Rudi. Post 12 updated accordingly.

[aarontheissueguy]

@stanwood I wrote a small app to make this process easier. It shows you all the apps that waydroid installed and lets you hide it by swiping from left to right and show it again by swiping in the other direction.

make sure to reload the appdrawer after any changes. That means scroll up all the way and swipe down. The changes should have taken effect now.

This is very much bodged together but I plan to add more functionality and add it to the openstore eventually.

Download: https://cloud.aaron.place/index.php/s/kd8FjCDsSWGTB4T

open the click with openstore to install

[Keneda]

@aarontheissueguy
Why not publishing your app on the Openstore ?

[aarontheissueguy]

@keneda Not tested much yet. And a few functions I still want to add.

[stanwood]

@aarontheissueguy Amazing. Congrats! Hope it will be added to the OpenStore