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
Here’s the script I use to start and stop Waydroid:
#!/bin/bash PID=$(pgrep "weston") if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then waydroid session stop kill $PID exit fi weston --width=1920 --height=1080 --socket=wayland-1 &>/dev/null & sleep 2 WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland waydroid show-full-uiChange the resolution to whatever you need it to be. Run it once to start, again to stop. It just lives on my desktop.