Waydroid Extras Script

Script to add gapps and other stuff to waydroid !

Installation/Usage

"lzip" and "sqlite" is required for this script to work, install it using your distribution's package manager:

Arch, Manjaro and EndeavourOS based distributions:

sudo pacman -S lzip sqlite

Debian and Ubuntu based distributions:

sudo apt install lzip sqlite  

RHEL, Fedora and Rocky based distributions:

sudo dnf install lzip sqlite

openSUSE based distributions:

sudo zypper install lzip sqlite

Then run:

git clone https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script
cd waydroid_script
sudo python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo python3 main.py [-i/-g/-n/-h/-w]

Install OpenGapps

Open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -g

Then launch waydroid with:

waydroid show-full-ui

After waydroid has finished booting open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -i

Copy the returned numeric ID open "https://google.com/android/uncertified/?pli=1" enter the id and register it, you may need to wait upto 10-20 minutes for device to get registered, then clear Google Play Service's cache and try logging in !

If you get the error: `ERROR: Cannot access gservices.db, make sure gapps is installed and waydroid was started at least once after installation and make sure waydroid is running !`

1. run sudo waydroid shell
2. inside the waydroid shell run ANDROID_RUNTIME_ROOT=/apex/com.android.runtime ANDROID_DATA=/data ANDROID_TZDATA_ROOT=/apex/com.android.tzdata ANDROID_I18N_ROOT=/apex/com.android.i18n sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "select * from main where name = \"android_id\";" to get the numeric ID as explained here: casualsnek#72

Install Magisk

Open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -m

Magisk will be installed on next boot !

Zygisk and modules like LSPosed should work now.

Please use Direct Install into system partition to update Magisk in Magisk manager.

Install libndk arm translation

libndk_translation from guybrush firmware.

libndk seems to have better performance than libhoudini on AMD.

Open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -n

Install libhoudini arm translation

Intel's libhoudini for intel/AMD x86 CPU, pulled from Microsoft's WSA 11 image

houdini version: 11.0.1b_y.38765.m

houdini64 version: 11.0.1b_z.38765.m

Open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -l

Integrate Widevine DRM (L3)

Open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -w

Get Android ID for device registration

You need to register you device with its it before being able to use gapps, this will print out your Android ID which you can use for device registration required for google apps: Open terminal and switch to directory where "main.py" is located then run:

sudo python3 main.py -i

Star this repository if you find this useful, if you encounter problem create a issue on github !

Error handling

In case of error, if you retry immediately and it fails with this error

==> Failed to resize image '/var/lib/waydroid/images/system.img' .. !  e2fsck 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
/var/lib/waydroid/images/system.img is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.

You need to get the mounting point using df | grep waydroid. It will be something like /dev/loopXXX. Then, unmount it

sudo umount /dev/loopXXX

And re-run the script.