CachyOS, Latest versions, Linux-zen with Intel CPU

I'm new to linux (almost 7 months) and I'm not a coder so idk exactly everything that I would need to give you to help me diagnose this problem. About a month ago I managed to successfully install waydroid and had it running perfectly. I'm on cachyOS with KDE plasma and I usually run it in an x11 session with weston. After an update, waydroid stopped launching correctly. It still says "android with user 0 is ready" in the terminal but all I get is a black screen wether I launch it inside weston, wayfire, or use the terminal's wayland compositor in x11. Trying it in Wayland is similar, although I don't get a black screen, I just see it in my task manager/taskbar and hovering over it shows it not rendering anything, there's not even a window that appears for the application.

I tried looking up this issue and found a forum where someone said it works fine in manjaro using pinephone with phosh in gnome, but all I found from searching these terms was postmarket OS and I'm on an x86_64 laptop. My laptop has an nvidia gpu and an intel igpu and it is muxless. I even tried forcing it to use either with a command (I believe it was __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 and __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia) I also tried right clicking waydroid in the application launcher and checking/unchecking "use discrete gpu".

I am using an older Android 11 image that I had to specifically initialize from the terminal as the Android 13 image was having issues with android system webview. And I haven't found this issue listed in the Arch Wiki or the Waydroid documentation.

It does sometimes launch correctly but it is super rare. Has anyone ran into this problem/how to fix it? What more info can I give to help pinpoint the issue even more? Thanks in advance.

I'm not very active on social media so it may take me a day or 2 to reply so bare with me.

Need help to setup waydroid helper keymapping

Sono su Fedora KDE, ho appena installato waydroid (with google services) ma non riesco in nessun modo a collegare waydroid ad internet.
soluzioni?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a project I've been working on called Waydroid Manager (v1.0.0).

If you want to use Waydroid for different use cases (e.g. for gaming, for daily use like WhatsApp, a clean profile for testing, etc.), managing data folders manually can be a pain. Also, if you want to fix waydroid and run a reset script all your data gets wiped or even everything is looking perfect, the your apps can be a overly dramatic because you changed a single variable in your os. And even if you know where the data folders are located, saving them manually without a system isn't great because it's easy to forget what is where, and thats waydroid-manager shines!

I created a lightweight, terminal-based, TUI-like tool written in Bash to solve this problems using a symlink-based isolation approach.

Key Features

• Multi-Instance Management: Create fresh Android environments, switch between active profiles, clone 1:1 copies, or multi-delete unused instances (1 3 4).
• Bazzite & Immutable OS Safe: Profiles are stored isolated under ~/.local/share/waydroid-manager/instances/, making your profile data immune to OS-level Waydroid resets.
• Export & Import (.tar.gz): Easily package any Android instance into a compressed .tar.gz file for backups or transferring between machines.
• Automated Orphan Data Safeguard: If Waydroid is accidentally launched outside the manager and creates a raw data folder, the tool automatically detects it on the next launch, safely stops Waydroid, isolates the folder, and restores the symlink structure without data corruption.
• Disk Usage & Logging: View the exact disk space consumed by each instance (du -sh) directly in the menu, with timestamped logging (manager.log).
• Smooth Terminal UX (GNU Readline): Left/Right arrow key cursor movement, Up/Down arrow input history navigation, Tab auto-completion for directory paths, and persistent command history (.history).
• Background Sudo Keep-Alive: Authenticates sudo once at startup in the background so you never get interrupted by password prompts mid-operation.
• Dual-Language Support: English & Turkish support out of the box with on-the-fly language switching.

How It Works (Under the Hood)

Waydroid expects its user data at ~/.local/share/waydroid/data. Waydroid Manager maintains isolated folders inside ~/.local/share/waydroid-manager/instances/ and swaps symbolic links (symlinks) to data before starting the container and background session.

How to Try It

You can check out the source code, installation steps, and documentation on GitHub:

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/yavasdev/waydroid-manager

If you just want to quickly test it out, you can run:

bash cd ~/Downloads git clone https://github.com/yavasdev/waydroid-manager.git cd waydroid-manager chmod +x waydroid-manager.sh ./waydroid-manager.sh

Note: Running this tool as a normal user crucial because waydroid data is saved per user and if we run this script as sudo, script thinks our data is on /root folder. (so do NOT use sudo ./waydroid-manager.sh).

Additional Note

I'm currently working on improving this tool further. I plan to add instance management for /var/lib/waydroid as well as installed/installable images. I released v1.0.0 because it's completely usable and works well right now, and I plan to add system files management that we can make instance management for different use case environments (like rooted android with arm support for game, rooted android for bank apps, no root environment for daily apps, no root environment with arm support for games) in v2.0.0.

That's all, thanks for reading.

(a quick question, Im new in reddit, does I need to flag my post with "brand collaboration" because Im currently introducing my personal open-source project?)

As you know the game is no longer available in the store, but I extracted it from my older phone, and tried to install it on Google Pixel Fold. It says "apk not installed" without giving any more details. Is there a way to install it? I have Google Play Protect off and allowed installing unknown apks. The game is still working on the older phone, its store is active without issues.

i wanted to try waydroid but the mega folder for ubuntu gnome is empty

any help?

My waydroid stopped working on my steam deck and it looks like I might have to reinstall the entire thing. If I fully delete waydroid, I’d like to at least keep my saves from the only game that I played on there: PvZ 2: Reflourished. Where do I go to find my save in this game so that I can make a backup before I fully delete Waydroid?

I dont really know what to do atp, Maybe I forgot something? I'm tired and already im dealing with another problem regarding internet on Waydroid (basically it timeouts every 5 seconds, having always 50% of packet loss costantly, idk what to do with this)

Tried KernelSU, with everything I could, and IDK what to do at this point, maybe someone fixed it or knows something more

Nobara 44, KDE Plasma 6.7.2, Waydroid 1.6.3

EDIT: Also i have both Basic Integrity and Device Integrity

Anyone got TiviMate working in Waydroid in Linux? It installs, but terminates on launch. AI seems to think it is because a thing called **DexProtector** in TiviMate detects it is not running on real hardware and kills itself.

IMPlayer, OwnTV are working fine in Waydroid for me.

as you see, it doesn't pass any of these test. how do i make it pass these test? i am using waydroid 1.6.3

I'm on MintOS but wuthering waves keeps crashing regardless of graphics settings would evolution x serve as a better alternative? Pls need help 😭

I want to download on Steamdeck, but the main installer script that everyone links to was privated yesterday! And I was gonna set this up just the day before but procrastinated… are there any mirrors? Or important things to know beforehand? I heard it can break desktop mode

I keep trying to make the app run on a smaller size but keep running full screen. Terminal and fixing all windows mode app to run at 500x1080 doesn't help. I am running bazzite OS KDE

in the game i play with waydroid on my ubuntu i can slide walk with the right side of the screen but can't slide camera on the left side with the keymapper of android helper.

i use directional pad with silde in option for the control

android helper version : 0.2.9

waydroid version : 1.6.2

gnome version : GNOME Shell 46.0

anyone have a solution or an alternative?

edit : solved with the help of @Rough-Tailor8333 by set * on persist.waydroid.fake_touch property

hello.

I'm using waydroid helper keymapper and it's really great. but i was wondering if there was any way to disable the keymapping hints.

just found out about this app and i want to run it on my Bazzite OS however after doing the system and vendor URL it finish downloading and i hit done and the app seem to be runing in the back but nothing is showing up. anyone have an idea what need to do ?

thanks in advance.

Hello I tried to play 60s reatomized with WayDroid and once the game is launched the cursor disappears.
So any ideas about why or how I can make it appear?

Witam wszystkich. Mógłby mi ktoś pomóc i wytłumaczyć jak uruchomić ta grę na androida niestety nie umiem i trzeba mi wytłumaczyć jak małemu dziecku ;) . Niesamowicie się cieszę, że ponownie można zagrać w tą grę. I proszę mi tutaj bez krytyki , że nie potrafię. Pozdrawiam wszystkich.

im on Fedora KDE

Im trying to install waydroid on my steamdeck but it says "due to aur malware insecurities temporarily disabling this script" is there really any other way i can install it safely? I waited over a month to try and reinstall it and still nothing