Applications Android#
Waydroid is a minimal Android container and compatibility layer to run Android apps on GNU/Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu Touch.
Note
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.
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
.C’est fait ! Il vous faudra sans doute actualiser le moteur de recherche des applications (faites glisser votre doigt vers le bas de l’écran et relâchez) afin que les nouvelles applications Android s’affichent.
Comment installer de nouveaux APK#
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
C’est fait ! Il vous faudra sans doute actualiser le moteur de recherche des applications (faites glisser votre doigt vers le bas de l’écran et relâchez) afin que les nouvelles applications Android s’affichent.
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:
F-Droid : https://f-droid.org/
Amazon Appstore: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get-appstore/android
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.
Comment désinstaller des applications#
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 shellRun 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.
Note
If you are using an appstore in waydroid you can also uninstall apps through said appstore
Accéder à l’espace de stockage d’Android#
The Android storage is located at /home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0
.
Les liens vers les bibliothèques d’Android peuvent être faits dans leurs équivalents XDG respectifs
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
Résolution de problèmes#
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 justmy-app.apk
Signaler des bugs#
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!