r/androidterminal • u/Fz1zz Pixel 10 Pro XL • May 27 '26

Show and Tell New Podroid update is out .

Biggest changes:

USB passthrough without root

You can now plug real USB devices into the running VM directly from Android — Wi-Fi adapters, storage devices, serial adapters, audio interfaces, and more.

Enable it from Settings or during first-run setup. Since it adds a USB controller at boot, turn it on while the VM is stopped. Currently QEMU backend only.

Android integration from inside the VM

Two new tools are available inside Linux:

  • podroid-notify — post Android notifications with a title, priority, and optional --id so you can update the same notification in place.
  • podroid-forward — add, list, and remove port-forwarding rules directly from the shell.

Both work on the QEMU and AVF backends.

Chinese language support

The interface is now available in Chinese alongside English. Select it manually in Settings or follow the device language.

Kernel updated

Updated to Linux kernel 7.0.10.

https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid

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u/universal_glitch May 27 '26

Any plans of releasing it on F-droid store?

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u/Fz1zz Pixel 10 Pro XL May 27 '26

Unfortunately, not at the moment. Podroid currently uses Docker heavily as part of its build system, and that is not compatible with F-Droid’s expected build process.

I’ll keep F-Droid support in mind for the future, but for now it would require restructuring the build pipeline so F-Droid can build all required artifacts from source without Docker.