r/MXLinux • u/Bushyiii • 20d ago
Help request Any Android Emulator for MXlinux 25.3?
I don't anything in Synaptic or package installer
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u/Feifel81 20d ago
You can use Virtualbox with Android image or. Emulators for Linux
Anbox Genymotion Bluestacks Android Studio Emulator
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u/Bushyiii 19d ago
I'm using Xfce, waydroid fails the initializing step. It's missing something about a box. I tried search synaptic and it's not available
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u/OneLonelyBrainCell 19d ago
Launch MX Package Installer, go to the Debian Backports tab, and search for waydroid. Version 1.6.3 is available for installation.
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u/Bushyiii 19d ago edited 19d ago
Thanks, I already installed from the backports. and it cannot work. My OS is using x11, could that be my problem?
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u/Bushyiii 15d ago
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and help. I'm happy to report I finally am able to use Android on MXLinux.
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u/mastoorhsn 20d ago
If you're using Nvidia and you're using KDE with Wayland u can use waidroid
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u/Specialist-Dog-501 18d ago
Someone mentioned, Android has images, that can be used within a virtual machine- I just tested it with Virtual-manager/QEMU/KVM on debian, found an Android.iso file, installed it with no problems! So that's another way, in case the Weston/Waydroid path would not work out.
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u/Bushyiii 16d ago
I tried this using VirtualBox and android-x86_64-9.0-r2.iso. I ended up with a terminal. Is this what should have been expected?
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u/Specialist-Dog-501 16d ago
Virtualbox is not the same as Virtual-Manager/Qemu/KVM..Virtualbox broke pretty fast for me (on linux mint) after an kernel update, so I moved on to Virtual-Manager. And no, terminal should not be required in neither case, both have an UI, I did not needed to go to terminal for either of them.
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u/artfully_dejected 20d ago
You can install Weston and run waydroid in weston. This works for me after following an install guide that I don’t have a handy link for.
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u/Specialist-Dog-501 19d ago
I believe Weston is made for Wayland, and mxlinux by default uses an X11 desktop (?)..then the installer would also need to install Xwayland beside Weston.
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u/artfully_dejected 19d ago
If you log in to an XFCE session, you can start Weston, it opens a windowed Wayland session, and you can start waydroid via terminal in Weston.
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u/Verrakai 20d ago
Android Studio is available for linux and has an emulator. You'll have to download it from Google and I don't think there's a .deb but it's well documented.