How to install Android 11 on Waydroid

Clean Waydroid

 sudo rm -rf /var/lib/waydroid/ ~/.local/share/{waydroid,applications/*aydroid*}

Make pre-installed waydroid images folder

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/waydroid-extra/images

Download Android 11 images (choose one) on to Downloads folder

cd ~/Downloads

• https://mega.nz/folder/N10jGA4a#j8tF2-6LY6Qq5Da2zV0Z7g

  sudo 7z e -o/usr/share/waydroid-extra/images system.img.7z
  sudo 7z e -o/usr/share/waydroid-extra/images vendor.img.7z

or

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/blissos-dev/files/waydroid/lineage/lineage-18.1/

  sudo unzip -d /usr/share/waydroid-extra/images '*waydroid*.zip'

Initialize use pre-installed waydroid images

sudo waydroid init -f -i /usr/share/waydroid-extra/images

Enable kernel unprivileged bpf

sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=0

Checking your kernel, is it has ashmem or memfd (usually kernel >= 5.18 no longger has ashmem)

 zgrep -E 'ASHMEM|MEMFD' /proc/config.gz

Skip "Enable memfd" step below if your kernel still have ashmem

Enable memfd

# waydroid_base.prop
echo "sys.use_memfd=true" | sudo tee -a /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid_base.prop

# init.rc
mkdir /tmp/rootfs
sudo mount -o rw /usr/share/waydroid-extra/images/system.img /tmp/rootfs
sudo sed -i '/setprop sys.use_memfd/s/false/true/' /tmp/rootfs/system/etc/init/hw/init.rc
sudo umount /tmp/rootfs && rmdir /tmp/rootfs 

Modify gbinder config

• Debian or Ubuntu

  sudo sed -i '/ApiLevel/s/29/30/' /etc/gbinder.d/anbox.conf
  sudo sed -i 's/aidl2/aidl3/' /etc/gbinder.d/waydroid.conf

• Arch Linux

  sudo sed -i '/ApiLevel/s/29/30/' /etc/gbinder.conf
  sudo sed -i 's/aidl2/aidl3/' /etc/gbinder.d/anbox.conf

• Fedora

  sudo sed -i '/ApiLevel/s/29/30/' /etc/gbinder.d/waydroid.conf
  sudo sed -i 's/aidl2/aidl3/' /etc/gbinder.d/waydroid.conf

Run waydroid container

sudo systemctl stop waydroid-container.service
sudo killall waydroid
sudo systemctl start waydroid-container.service || sudo waydroid start container

Run waydroid session, Open new tab (Ctrl+Alt+T)

waydroid session start

Please wait until you see message "Android with user 0 is ready"

Run waydroid ui after it ready, Open new tab again

waydroid show-full-ui

Good luck :)

thanks to Wachid Adi Nugroho from Waydroid matrix group for this documentaion.

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