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    Waydroid vs Anbox and Wayland Questions

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        migue5862
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        Hi,
        I am currently trying to get some things working on my phone, and one of them is some android apps, I hope that this is the right place to ask, I looked into this and the information that I get is that I have to use either Waydroid or Anbox, I would like to know whether Anbox is still being developed or if is going to be replaced with Waydroid, I have seen that most posts that ask about Anbox end up referring to Waydroid instead, and I am confused on whether they will be merged or if there is no longer any interest in Anbox and is getting replaced instead on UT.

        The other thing I would like to know, is that so far I have manage to install Waydroid however, when I try to run it I get the message that I am running XDG session which is not Wayland, it was a really long time ago that the discussion of Mir vs Wayland happened and I thought that UT was already compatible with Waydroid since most people directs you towards that, but it looks like since it does not run on Wayland is not compatible, do I have to install the entire display server of Wayland, or is it a thing that only some devices were taken into consideration for running it?

        Thanks for any information.

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          Lakotaubp @migue5862
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          @migue5862 WayDroid is the way to go.You don't mention which phone you have but there is now a new WayDroid on Ubuntu Touch TELEports/Telegram group https://t.me/waydroidonut for allthe info and questions you have if can't find an answer here.

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            Emphrath @migue5862
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            @migue5862 Waydroid doesn't work with anything under Halium 9 (the abstraction layer that talks to the android bits of your phone) and given your error, my guess is you're stuck with anbox. Check your phone under settings/ about /os- in device version description u should see sth like that "userdebug-9.1.".
            If it's 5 or 7, anbox is the way, unless there's a halium-dev channel for your device that runs halium 9.
            Anbox is not supported anymore, but it's still able to run a few things. You better be command-line savvy though, because it's a pain to install, manage and uninstall.

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