Halium purpose?

[Benjamin-Loison]

https://ota.waydro.id/vendor/waydroid_x86_64/HALIUM_11.json

Related to #16#issuecomment-2203801964.

[Benjamin-Loison]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/vendor/waydroid_x86_64/

[Benjamin-Loison]

The Telegram person mentioned in #16#issuecomment-2423838075 uses Halium and may need it specifically compared to mainline.

[Benjamin-Loison]

Let us try to run Halium by setting /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.cfg:

• vendor_type to HALIUM_11
• vendor_ota to https://ota.waydro.id/vendor/waydroid_x86_64/HALIUM_11.json

as:

• https://ota.waydro.id/vendor/waydroid_x86_64/HALIUM_12.json
• https://ota.waydro.id/vendor/waydroid_x86_64/HALIUM.json

do not exist.

On Debian 12 GNOME Debian (trust) Virtual Machine Manager virtual machine on Debian 12 GNOME Pegasus default official Waydroid build works out of the box, so now sudo waydroid init -f to see if it downloads Halium vendor type. It downloads mainline, see #47#issuecomment-2424207024. /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.cfg is automatically reverted to mainline.

[Benjamin-Loison]

waydroid init -h

Output:

usage: waydroid init [-h] [-i IMAGES_PATH] [-f] [-c SYSTEM_CHANNEL] [-v VENDOR_CHANNEL] [-r ROM_TYPE] [-s SYSTEM_TYPE]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IMAGES_PATH, --images_path IMAGES_PATH
                        custom path to waydroid images (default in /var/lib/waydroid/images)
  -f, --force           re-initialize configs and images
  -c SYSTEM_CHANNEL, --system_channel SYSTEM_CHANNEL
                        custom system channel (options: OTA channel URL; default is Official OTA server)
  -v VENDOR_CHANNEL, --vendor_channel VENDOR_CHANNEL
                        custom vendor channel (options: OTA channel URL; default is Official OTA server)
  -r ROM_TYPE, --rom_type ROM_TYPE
                        rom type (options: "lineage", "bliss" or OTA channel URL; default is LineageOS)
  -s SYSTEM_TYPE, --system_type SYSTEM_TYPE
                        system type (options: VANILLA, FOSS or GAPPS; default is VANILLA)

[Benjamin-Loison]

sudo waydroid init -f --vendor_type MAINLINE

Output:

usage: waydroid [-h] [-V] [-l LOG] [--details-to-stdout] [-v] [-q] [-w]
                {status,log,init,upgrade,session,container,app,prop,show-full-ui,first-launch,shell,logcat} ...
waydroid: error: unrecognized arguments: --vendor_type MAINLINE

[Benjamin-Loison]

I asked the Telegram person how to install Halium.

[Benjamin-Loison]

Wikipedia: Hardware abstraction#Android (1235989359)