Install Waydroid on Raspberry Pi

Waydroid

Boot a full Android OS on systems running Wayland based desktop environments.
No virtualization or emulation involved, just a namespaces container, so the performance is indistinguishable from natively installing Android on the same hardware.

Installed apps will be added to the Menu, and can be run separately from the familiar Android UI.
This won't work on operating systems using X11, you must switch to Wayland.

To run: Menu -> Accessories -> Waydroid
To run in a terminal: waydroid show-full-ui

Fortunately, Waydroid is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Waydroid.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Bookworm.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Waydroid will only run on PiOS 64-bit. Pi-Apps will not let you install Waydroid on PiOS 32-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Waydroid

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Waydroid.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Tools category, which leads to the Emulation category.

Now scroll down to find Waydroid in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Waydroid for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot, theofficialgman, and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io