Today we take a look a Waydroid, a system for running Android Apps on Linux. While this is useful on the desktop, it is an escape hatch when moving to use a Linux phone as a daily driver. Without it, moving full time to a Linux phone is not a possibility for some. Thankfully, the reason this is possible is because of the open source nature of Android and the ability to install Google Play on an arbitrary device.

Waydroid works by running Android in a Linux container. This allows both great performance and great compatibility since it is a full Android OS.

Neither Ubuntu touch nor Waydroid are supported on the Pinephone Pro. But we are going to give it a go and see how far we can get.

Chapters:
00:00 Teaser
00:21 Intro
00:42 Open
01:40 Waydroid Installation
06:57 Running Waydroid
10:28 Waydroid after reboot
12:42 Install GAPPS Image
14:21 Disaster Strikes
16:19 Successful GAPPS Install
17:43 Google Play Protect Certification
20:13 Conclusion
21:51 Outro

Related Links:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/8807...
https://waydro.id/
https://ubuntutouch.io/
https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

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