GrapheneOS accuses Google of withholding Android 17 QPR1 APIs and security fixes from other Android manufacturers and AOSP-based projects, claiming Google is gatekeeping features that were previously made available across the ecosystem. The project says it cannot release its own Android 17 QPR1 build without permission and that security patches affecting standard Android components won't reach other OEMs until December's QPR2 release.
Waydroid is a container-based solution that runs a full Android system on GNU/Linux platforms with Wayland desktop environments, allowing Android applications to integrate seamlessly with Linux apps. It uses Linux namespaces and LXC for hardware access, ships with a minimal Android 13-based image, and is now available in fully-integrated Linux distributions including Ubuntu and Debian.