Android apps via Waydroid
mikeschnier ran Android in a Waydroid container on Bookworm with a 6.6 kernel: add psi=1 to cmdline, init with LineageOS, and the gamepad works through udev.
What it takes
- Software only
- Config change
Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.
Details
The June 2024 thread runs Waydroid on Debian Bookworm with kernel 6.6.30 or newer: add psi=1 to the kernel command line, install Waydroid from its repository, initialise with the LineageOS image (with Google services if wanted) and set the display to 1280 × 720. Discord, Crossy Road and YouTube ran acceptably, and simulating a udev event made the built-in gamepad usable in games; some desktops needed help with full-screen scaling.
Others reproduced it on Arch, and it works on the DevTerm CM4 too. postmarketOS's Waydroid path was not working when that thread started.
Links
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The community's recommended OS: Debian 13 on Rex's patched Pi kernel, desktop and Lite variants, for CM3+, CM4, CM4S and CM5.
The previous Debian release of Rex's line, still rebuilt for the new screens in 2026 — the fallback when something on Trixie is not ready yet.
ClockworkPi's own images: CM4 v3.1 on Linux 6.12.62 (April 2026), the older XFCE build, and the A-06 and R-01 releases, with MD5s on GitHub.
Rex's Kali image for CM4 and CM5 on the uConsole kernel with the hardware presets; cuu's original CM4 build is documented on the ClockworkPi wiki.
Rex's Parrot OS build for CM3/CM4/CM5 in Home and Security editions, plus krokowitz's Security spin with RTL-SDR and ALFA drivers preinstalled.
Rex's build of DragonOS Pi64 — an Ubuntu 22.04 SDR distribution with the radio tools preinstalled — on the uConsole kernel for CM4 and CM5.