ExTV/Podroid
A rootless Android app that boots Alpine Linux: run containers (Podman/Docker/LXC) and GUI desktop apps. observed · 2026-10-14
Health v2 · maintenance only
80/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 96
- Longevity 15
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 1.5
- age_days: 219
- days_rel: 29
- days_push: 29
- n_releases_24m: 29
Adoption not part of the score
3496 stars · 226 forks observed · 2026-10-14
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Podroid is a rootless Android app that boots a real Alpine Linux virtual machine (via QEMU or hardware-accelerated AVF) with a custom kernel, pre-installed Podman, Docker, and LXC. It includes a built-in terminal, X11 desktop viewer for GUI apps, SSH, port forwarding, USB passthrough, and container backup.
Use cases
- run docker containers on android without root
- run podman on my phone
- boot a linux vm on android
- run gui linux apps on android
- ssh into a linux environment from my laptop using my phone
- test web servers in containers on android
- use lxc containers on a non-rooted phone
When to choose
- you want real containers (Podman/Docker/LXC) on Android without rooting
- you need a full Linux VM with its own kernel rather than a chroot/proot workaround
- you want a portable dev environment with terminal, SSH, and GUI Linux apps on an arm64 Android 8+ device
When to avoid
- you need x86/amd64 containers or non-arm64 architectures
- your device runs Android below 8.0
- you need bare-metal performance or host-level kernel access on Android
Facets
application · maturity active
container-runtime terminal-ui ssh gui developer-tools self-hosted android-tools operating-systems alpine-linux qemu android-virtualization-framework podman docker lxc rootless x11 vm kotlin virtualization containers android arm64 mobile
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid · fetched 2026-10-14 · 29e246080bb3
- homepage: https://extv.github.io/Podroid/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 806bd6644a85
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ExTV/Podroid | main | 80 |
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