A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on regular GNU/Linux systems running Wayland based desktop environments.
Using Waydroid's Multi-Window Mode
Brought To Life With Waydroid
With Waydroids Fullscreen Mode For Desktops & Kiosks
I set out to test the Epson L3110 as an all-in-one for a small home office: affordable, compact, and promising print/scan/copy basics. The hardware itself mostly delivered — good color printing for photos and crisp text at everyday resolutions, a responsive flatbed scanner, and a small footprint that fit neatly on my desk. But the software side introduced a quirk that turned routine scanning into a memorable experience: the scanner driver gets hot.
Rating (home-use lens): 3.5 / 5 — solid value, minor but tangible software/thermal annoyance.
What I mean by "hot": after a few consecutive scans, the scanner driver process climbs CPU usage, and the machine's case (near the scanning module) becomes noticeably warm. It’s not immediately catastrophic — the unit keeps functioning, and scans complete — but the warmth is persistent enough to raise eyebrows and prompt a few practical concerns.
Waydroid brings all the apps you love, right to your desktop, working side by side your Linux applications.
The Android inside the container has direct access to needed hardwares.
The Android runtime environment ships with a minimal customized Android system image based on LineageOS. The used image is currently based on Android 13
Our documentation site can be found at docs.waydro.id
Bug Reports can be filed on our repo Github Repo
Our development repositories are hosted on Github
Please refer to our installation docs for complete installation guide.
You can also manually download our images from
SourceForge
For systemd distributions
Follow the install instructions for your linux distribution. You can find a list in our docs.
After installing you should start the waydroid-container service, if it was not started automatically:
sudo systemctl enable --now waydroid-container
Then launch Waydroid from the applications menu and follow the first-launch wizard.
If prompted, use the following links for System OTA and Vendor OTA:
https://ota.waydro.id/system
https://ota.waydro.id/vendor
For further instructions, please visit the docs site here
I set out to test the Epson L3110 as an all-in-one for a small home office: affordable, compact, and promising print/scan/copy basics. The hardware itself mostly delivered — good color printing for photos and crisp text at everyday resolutions, a responsive flatbed scanner, and a small footprint that fit neatly on my desk. But the software side introduced a quirk that turned routine scanning into a memorable experience: the scanner driver gets hot.
Rating (home-use lens): 3.5 / 5 — solid value, minor but tangible software/thermal annoyance.
What I mean by "hot": after a few consecutive scans, the scanner driver process climbs CPU usage, and the machine's case (near the scanning module) becomes noticeably warm. It’s not immediately catastrophic — the unit keeps functioning, and scans complete — but the warmth is persistent enough to raise eyebrows and prompt a few practical concerns.
Here are the members of our team
