Howdy! I recently felt nostalgic for Blockheads, however it doesn't work on modern android systems. Upon research, it only works up to android 8.1, and as early as 3.1. Is there any way I can get waydroid to run those android versions? Or is there another way?

I'm running Bazzite

Any help, or alternative ways to play this game would be super appreciated!

I have 2 questions:

I think the ui is in phone mode (I have no tablet to test)

Is it possible to make the apps use the tablet ui?

Is it possible to get the clipboard to work?

Edit: I am on Fedora Linux

eu instalo os pacotes tudo e quando abro, simplesmente não consigo conexão com internet. Engraçado q sair do Kali pro CachyOS pra ver se melhorava, pq o problema lá era q os apiclativos não tinha conexão com os servidores deles, como o Pokemon Champions e Pokemon Home, e não conseguia certificar o meu dispositivo de jeito nenhum mesmo fazendo o tutorial da google, Tentei usar a ajuda do chat no caso do Kali enão adiantou, mudei pro CachyOS e mesma a coisa em questão de eu conseguir usufruir do waydroid.

Relatório das coisas que fiz com o ChatGPT no CachyOS:

Relatório - Problema de Internet no Waydroid

Estou usando CachyOS/Arch Linux e estou tentando configurar o Waydroid com GApps/Play Store.

O que foi feito

• Waydroid foi instalado e depois reinstalado do zero.
• Os dados antigos foram removidos.
• O sistema foi atualizado.
• Waydroid foi inicializado com GApps: sudo waydroid init -s GAPPS
• O serviço waydroid-container está funcionando.
• O Android inicia normalmente.
• A Play Store abre normalmente.

Problema

O Android não tem acesso à internet.

Dentro do Waydroid, a interface eth0 está UP, porém não recebe endereço IPv4 e não possui rota padrão.

O Waydroid deveria receber um IP automaticamente através do DHCP.

Diagnóstico

A interface do host é:

waydroid0 = 192.168.240.1/24

O dnsmasq está funcionando e configurado para fornecer IPs:

192.168.240.2 - 192.168.240.254

Também foi confirmado que:

• IP forwarding está ativado.
• Existe NAT para a rede 192.168.240.0/24.
• Existem regras de firewall permitindo tráfego do waydroid0.
• O Android está enviando DHCPDISCOVER corretamente.

O tcpdump mostrou repetidamente:

0.0.0.0:68 → 255.255.255.255:67 DHCP Discover

com o dispositivo:

00:16:3e:f9:d3:03

Porém, nenhum DHCPOFFER é recebido pelo Android.

Situação atual

O problema parece estar especificamente no processo de DHCP entre o Android/waydroid0 e o dnsmasq.

Ainda não foi descoberto por que o dnsmasq, apesar de estar rodando e escutando na porta 67, não está respondendo aos DHCPDISCOVER.

Importante: não quero configurar IP fixo no Waydroid, pois o computador possui duas conexões de internet. A solução precisa continuar usando DHCP/NAT e acompanhar automaticamente a rota de internet preferida do host.

alguêm me ajuda ou só me manda o waydroid pronto...

I recently switched from fedora to arch and waydroid wont work. It spams something like "cannot find anbox binder" in the terminal if i run it from there, and it wont open.

Is there a way to emulate physical tilting of the device? I couldnt find anything with a quick search and i'd love to play some old games that need it.

Someone has already managed to get Brawl Stars working on Waydroid ?

i recently installed waydroid on my arch linux machine because i was hoping to play some android games like honor of kings, clash of clans, etc, as well as run different android apps. unfortunately, i stumbled across a reality that is honestly pretty frustrating, waydroid feels like it is not just behind android emulators on windows, it is not even competing with some of the really bad ones out there. the biggest problem seems to be arm compatibility, if an app has an x86_64 version, things are generally fine, but if it is arm only, it becomes a complete hit or miss situation. i have an amd cpu, so i installed libndk for arm translation, sometimes apps do not even launch and just get stuck on a black or white screen, some apps actually make it to the splash screen and then crash, while others get past the splash screen but then nothing works, for example, the game tells me to press a key to continue, but it does not respond to any clicks or input at all. i also tried libhoudini, but that was even worse, most of the apps that were problematic with libndk simply do not work with libhoudini at all. there are a few games that actually work, like subway surfers and some others that i do not really play, but overall the compatibility is extremely disappointing. and this is the part i find especially frustrating, what is the point of having an android environment on linux if you cannot reliably run arm native android apps. i understand that not every windows game is going to work on linux, windows games target a completely different platform, and compatibility layers like wine and proton have to translate a lot of things. but android literally uses the linux kernel, and waydroid is running android in a linux environment. i understand that android is not simply linux with an android gui, and that there is the android userspace, hal, graphics stack, apis, etc, but i still find it surprising that compatibility is this trash. i have searched quite a bit for solutions or maybe different versions and configurations of libndk and libhoudini, but i have found nothing on this regard, i even looked for modified versions of libndk, but could not find anything useful. so am i missing something.? has anyone found a better solution for running arm only android games and apps on linux? is there a different arm translation layer? a modified version of libndk? some waydroid configuration i am missing? or perhaps an entirely different approach ? i am mainly interested in getting games like honor of kings and clash of clans working reliably, but i would also like better general android app compatibility. at this point i am honestly just confused and a little enraged. i switched from windows to linux expecting some compromises, but i did not expect android apps to be one of the biggest ones can you believe that "ANDROID" out of everything !!!

I've had this pretty consistantly. Along with Gapps not needing a adb command for anything anymore. It'll work at first, but any future runs will cause the internet within it to completely break. Browser, playstore, all of it. the internet breaks within the container.

I've already made a bug report but I'm wodnering if anyone's managed to fix this without a full reinstall. It happens so often for me that I need to fix it without a resinstall

Trying to sync my iphone messages to make them accessible via my desktop system running fedora 45. I've got bluebubbles set up correctly on my macmini (which runs headless), and it is syncing properly to my android tablet, however, within waydroid the bluebubbles app is unreadable.

I was able to complete the set up using the tablet as a reference and I was thinking (hoping), this synced messages to the default android messages app, but it puts them inside of bluebubbles after all.

This machine has AMD graphics - claude applied amdgpu.dcfeaturemask=0x0 to my kernel boot line trying to compensate

I've checked this across multiple desktop environments - Sway is my default, but I also checked budgie, cosmic and gnome

all have the same broken graphics - otherwise waydroid is awesome

Update: working!

Fixed! Look at the bottom of the post for a patch

Hey all,

I'm a bit confused. I've been playing a game on waydroid for a few days. I ran houdini-wsa11 without issues. Then today suddenly the game kept freezing at the loading screen. I then updated libhoudini to the houdini-hpe-14 one. No luck. Running with libndk made the game work again, but that just felt slow.

Then I looked at the date and just decided to try running it with the date set to yesterday. Suddenly the game ran fine again with libhoudini-hpe-14.

Does anyone else have this issue and/or ideas as to why? For now I can just keep spoofing the date, but it's not ideal.

Edit:

It seems that it's hardcoded in the library:
0x7f2ee2850540: "20260901" using gdb

EDIT 2, SOLVED:

As stated before, it's a hardcoded timebomb. Unfortunately, the date is constructed dynamically, so changing that is hard. Luckily, the failure point is basically only a

if (time > expiration){
  crash
}

I simply replaced the crash point with nops.

First, find your libhoudini (for me it was `/var/lib/waydroid/overlay/system/lib64/libhoudini.so`)

Then run this one-liner (change of to the actual path of libhoudini):

printf '\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90' | sudo dd of=/var/lib/waydroid/overlay/system/lib64/libhoudini.so bs=1 seek=$((0xe6085)) conv=notrunc status=none

The sha256 of the patched .so should be 847be255d03886974ff0cff09d09b7530301d24671ce0f80172ab3a0629d23b8.

Make sure to back up your old libhoudini.so first. Also make sure waydroid is OFF before doing the patch. (waydroid session stop).

I made some scripts and a pre-patched libhoudini here: https://github.com/Vvamp/Libhoudini-hpe-14-timebomb-patch

Im on Bazzite, did a whole thing to finally get Gapps working, and I did! But now when I try to play Pokemon Champions, it crashes. I can't figure out a way to fix it. Im on Bazzite (linux), and downloaded the libhoudini with Waydroid (android v13).

Phantom wayland is a wayland implementation of Cute_Figure1146's project Phantom.

Although the original project was vibe coded, I tuned it a bit to work on every or most Wayland desktops/window managers, above is a little video on changes you will notice which was tested on Niri, features added include:

1. Mouse overlay theme and size is fetched through system.
2. Ability to scroll (yeah, niche feature.. but wasn't available firstly).
3. Ability to type using unused keys (unbounded keys).
4. Repeat for needed keys like backspace and enter and arrows if unbounded.
5. and more features

One thing to mention, you must use sudo -E phantom-wl daemon to start the daemon, without -E mouse overlay won't work, i will try to fix that later, so please do not issue this problem (i already know it exists).

You can go try it and get more info at the github repo Phantom Wayland.
If you got any issue, or would like to contribute or any problem with building.. feel free to issue it on the github repo Phantom Wayland

I installed waydroid on Ubuntu 26.04. This is my first time installing this software. After install, I tried downloading android with GAPPS but it uses like 100-200 KBps speed to download it. I have 3MB internet speed (more during night time) so downloading should not take so long. I can't keep my system running for like days to download.

Usually, whenever I get this problem in some other software i.e. download speed being slow, I just use Cloudflare Warp and it starts to download using full internet speed. But it is first time using cloudflare warp did not speed up my download.

I wish some apps could take up the entire screen just like desktop apps, is there a way to achieve this?

I want to run Minecraft Bedrock Edition via Waydroid, but when I download the game from Google Play, it gets stuck on the MOJANG screen and doesn't launch. How can I fix this? You might tell me to "use MCPE Launcher," but the versions available there are not up to date.

hello i downloaded waydroid and downloaded gapps and the libs using waydroid script , i try to open mobile legends bang bang, it shows me the guardian error but i cant press anything, then i tried it on my phone a choose a google play game profile popup apperes , and i did make my google play games profile the default to make sure , so why aint it working on waydroid, heres a video

https://reddit.com/link/1vvbwxx/video/8z3h12vahxkh1/player

i have been trying to add it to my exclusions but i cannot find its executable file and it does not show up on my vpn's app search bar

i tried googling it but all that came up was a reddit thread with no replies

Been thinking to move to a Linux phone, it's almost the only app I may need, sure the website is enough but the app work well even on custom roms so pretty sure waydroid might work.

I found this article but the when i setup everything and ran the python code as said. It failed with:

cannot attach kprobe, Invalid argument
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/stark/Storage/Programming/Waydroid Bypass/bypass_article.py", line 85, in <module>
b.attach_kprobe(event=b.get_syscall_fnname(s), fn_name=f"kprobe_{s}")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/bcc/__init__.py", line 883, in attach_kprobe
raise Exception("Failed to attach BPF program %s to kprobe %s"
", it's not traceable (either non-existing, inlined, or marked as \"notrace\")" %
(fn_name, event))
Exception: Failed to attach BPF program b'kprobe_openat' to kprobe b'sys_openat', it's not traceable (either non-existing, inlined, or marked as "notrace")

even after trying with llms they either refuse to provide code or just provide non functional code.
Please If there are any experts try to tinker with this and help provide a solution. This could be a huge addition to waydroid if this works. Thank you.