I have forked the latest KitsuneMagisk and made small patches, So It could work on Waydroid once again. (https://github.com/mistrmochov/KitsuneMagisk-Waydroid)
As a follow up to this, I decided to develop full Magisk CLI installer and manager for Waydroid in Rust. Big credits goes to @nitanmarcel as this project has been inspired by his project waydroid-magisk.
So I have created a new Magisk fork directly from topjohnwu (https://github.com/mistrmochov/MagiskForWaydroid), because Kitsune is pretty outdated and I personally don't like the direction where this project is going. So now you will have two options, you can stick to Kitsune or you can install my new modern fork of Magisk. It was a little tricky to get this working, because upstream Magisk doesn't have --setup-sbin like Kitsune has, but the result is worth it!
I made a similar patches I did to Kitsune, but I also had to make zygisk working as the official built in zygisk doesn't work on Waydroid. I basically implemented ReZygisk module directly into the Magisk itself, you as user won't see any difference at all. You will simply enable or disable zygisk in the settings as usual.
You can install WaydroidSU by installing packages from releases
Choose your package accordingly for your distro and your architecture.
Download your selected package and use your package manager to install it.
Ubuntu:
sudo apt install ./wsu-0.1.1-1-x86_64-ubuntu_24+.debFedora:
sudo dnf install ./wsu-0.1.1-1-x86_64-fc42.rpmArch:
sudo pacman -U ./wsu-0.1.1-1-x86_64-archlinux.pkg.tar.zstSUSE:
sudo zypper in ./wsu-0.1.1-1-x86_64-suse.rpmAlpine:
sudo apk add ./wsu-0.1.1-1-x86_64-alpine.apkIf your distro isn't in releases you will have to build it yourself. I would still recommend you to build the program yourself always, it will make your life easier when updating and you will have always the latest build.
If you are using SUSE you might get a warning from zypper, that the package is not signed, you can ignore this message and continue by selecting i, also the package for SUSE has been built on SUSE Tumbleweed.
Main building dependencies are make and cargo. This project has been made on Rust version 1.88.0, if your cargo version from your package manager isn't compatible with this project, please install cargo using rustup or install rust manually from the official website: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
Dependencies
- Ubuntu/Debian:
libdbus-1-dev,libssl-dev,pkg-config,build-essential - Fedora:
dbus-devel,openssl-devel,pkgconf-pkg-config - Arch:
dbus,openssl,base-devel,pkgconf - SUSE:
dbus-1-devel,libopenssl-devel,pkgconf - Alpine:
dbus-dev,openssl-dev,pkgconf,build-base
Runtime dependencies
- Ubuntu/Debian:
liblzma5,libbz2-1.0,libssl3,libdbus-1-3,libsystemd0,libcap2 - Fedora:
xz-libs,bzip2-libs,openssl,dbus-libs,systemd-libs,libcap - Arch:
xz,bzip2,openssl,dbus,systemd-libs,libcap - SUSE:
liblzma5,libbz2-1,libopenssl3,libdbus-1-3,libsystemd0,libcap2 - Alpine:
xz-libs,bzip2,libssl3,libcrypto3,dbus-libs,libelogind,libcap
Run the following commmands to build and install WaydroidSU:
git clone https://github.com/mistrmochov/WaydroidSU
cd WaydroidSU
make
sudo make installThis will place WaydroidSU binary in /usr/bin.
If you want to clean build files run:
make cleanIf you wish to uninstall WaydroidSU run the following command in the repo's directory:
sudo make uninstall- Go to USAGE.md for complete list of avialable commands or use
-h / --help.
Your Waydroid has to be initialized!
By default Magisk is installed to Waydroid's overlay system, however if your Waydroid has mount_overlays disabled, the program will ask you if you want to install Magisk directly into the system image. (Not recommended)
sudo wsu install # Normal installation
sudo wsu install --new # My new modern fork of Magisk
sudo wsu install --apk /path/to/apk # Not recommended since this is the only version, that will work on WaydroidIt is now required for Waydroid to be running before the installation! Keep in mind, that Waydroid will be booting much longer with Magisk installed.
After your Waydroid boots app, run this command to run additional setup or upgrade the Magisk stub to full manager by clicking on it and then proceed to the additional setup.
sudo wsu setupNow after Waydroid restarts, Magisk is fully installed.
Please do NOT install Magisk through the Magisk manager app (Direct install into system)! It might break your setup as it uses a different installation process and you might need to reinstall Magisk!
This is of course only the case for Kitsune as Magisk does not have such an option.
I just want to clarify, that the custom apk option is there just for testing. So remember, that if you try to install official versions of Magisk, it might not work at all or poorly.
Run following command to check/install update.
sudo wsu updateI have managed to get this working even on devices with SELinux enforcing enabled!
At this point, this project only supports systems with 64 bits architecture.
Some magisk modules in KitsuneMagisk might cause that Play Store cannot be loaded, it's basically stuck on the Play Store logo.
So in my case, module tricky_store has been causing this issue. You can fix this issue by enabling sulist in magiskhide through the magisk manager or via WaydroidSU.
If you are using root as your default main account (logged in as a root user through your login screen), Magisk will not work.
Magisk will be able to install, but su requests will get automatically rejected, there will be likely more issues around this thing.
