WayDroid: lets package it for postmarketOS
With WayDroid now in a somewhat usable state, it would be good to get it packaged in edge so more people can test it out and report bugs.
Unlike the old anbox, waydroid offers near-native performance, on the OnePlus 6 this means full speed Android, the ability to run games pretty much all the applications you might want. Although the device gets a fair bit warmer than when doing this on downstream Android.
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Adapt install scripts to APKBUILD -
Automate the config file generation as a post-install step -
Decide if it's best to have the large Android images be part of the package or fetched in *-install (part of the package seems best to me). -
Create new Kconfig check for waydroid (mostly just depends on BINDER stuff, as well as CONFIG_PSI and perhaps some things for networking). -
Deal with the dnsmasq dependency which will be needed to initialise networking in WayDroid. -
Come up with a solution for the bidirectional sharing data between the host user and the container without needing root to copy files. -
Find a way to handle non-integer scaling in phosh causing the Android window to not fill the screen. And a way to deal with padding needed to avoid the Android navigation bar being obscured by the Phosh one ( anbox.display_height_padding=100
<- this depends on scaling).
With regards to the binder stuff, currently the lxc config files expect ANDROID_BINDER to be a module which gets probed when you first start the container and configured to create the 3 binder interfaces with specific names (prepended with anbox-), is this a good solution?
Erfanoabdi says he'll be replacing the install scripts with some kind of Python tool. Could/should we make use of this?