Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

Podroid

Run Linux containers on Android — no root required.

Podroid spins up a lightweight Alpine Linux VM on your phone using QEMU and gives you a fully working Podman container runtime with a built-in serial terminal.

Highlights

Containers Pull and run any OCI image — podman run --rm -it alpine sh Terminal Full xterm emulation with Ctrl, Alt, F1-F12, arrows, and more Persistence Packages, configs, and container images survive restarts Networking Internet access out of the box, port forwarding to Android host Self-contained No root, no Termux, no host binaries — just install the APK

Requirements

arm64 Android device

Android device Android 14+ (API 34)

(API 34) ~150 MB free storage

Quick Start

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