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Waydroid

Waydroid is a free, open-source developer tool for Linux. Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu. It has 12,456 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0 license. Its source code is on GitHub at waydroid/waydroid.

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About Waydroid

Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system. Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.

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FAQ

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Is Waydroid free and open source?

Yes. Waydroid's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.

How do I install Waydroid?

Download the installer for Linux from its GitHub Releases page (latest: 1.6.3) or the project website.

Is Waydroid still maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 16, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.