WayDroid-ATV/waydroid-androidtv-builds 20260403

20260403 (Android TV 16) (x86-64)

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# equivalent to factory reset, all data will be LOST
rm -rf ~/.local/share/waydroid
rm -rf /var/lib/waydroid/overlay*
sudo waydroid init -f

Notes on video payback/hardware-accelerated decoding support

• If you encounter any video-related issues, try disabling "Hardware acceleration for video playback" or "Zero-copy video decoding support" in Settings -> System -> Waydroid options

Known bugs

• Skip BT remote pair screen with echo atv.setup.bt_remote_pairing=false >> /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid_base.prop

New features

• A new tab called Waydroid options has been added to the Settings app for configuring Waydroid
• The GApps build now ships with Google TV components (disabled by default, enable it in Settings -> System -> Waydroid options -> Google TV mode)

Changelog

• LineageOS's Catapult becomes the default launcher for both GApps and Vanilla builds
• VA-API zero-copy decoding support is now enabled by default for Intel/AMD GPUs
• Add support for enabling VA-API zero-copy decoding on minigbm_gbm_mesa using VPP (thanks @hmtheboy154 for this)
• Fixed scrambled video when using VA-API zero-copy decoding with MTL+ Intel iGPUs (Core Ultra CPUs)
• Now you can force the use of hardware-accelerated codecs while playing videos (enable it in Settings -> System -> Waydroid options)
• Experimental support for NVIDIA GPUs (untested)
• Add OpenGL/Vulkan driver info in Settings app
• Update Mesa to 26.0.3
• Update libva to 2.23
• Update FFmpeg to 7.1.3
• Update intel-media-driver to 25.4.6

Installation

Method 1: Install with waydroid command (recommended)

• Re-initialize Waydroid with WayDroid-ATV OTA server (NOTE: replace GAPPS with VANILLA if you want non-GApps build)

sudo waydroid init -f \
  -c https://waydroid-atv.github.io/ota/a16-tv/system \
  -v https://waydroid-atv.github.io/ota/a16-tv/vendor \
  -r lineage \
  -s GAPPS

• Download images with Waydroid

sudo waydroid upgrade

Method 2: Download and install manually

• Download lineage-23.0-xxxxxxx-GAPPS-waydroid_tv_xxxxx-system.zip and lineage-23.0-xxxxxxx-MAINLINE-waydroid_tv_xxxxx-vendor.zip from SourceForge (NOTE: replace GAPPS with VANILLA if you want non-GApps build)
• Extract system.img and vendor.img from the downloaded archives
• Copy system.img and vendor.img to /etc/waydroid-extra/images/:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/waydroid-extra/images/
sudo cp <PATH TO SYSTEM IMAGE> /etc/waydroid-extra/images/system.img
sudo cp <PATH TO VENDOR IMAGE> /etc/waydroid-extra/images/vendor.img

• Re-initialize Waydroid setup:

sudo waydroid init -f