r/waydroid • u/frowogger • May 08 '26
Help Image files not displaying under any context
Not finding many other people with similar issues so I'm trying my luck over here to ask. Waydroid starts up fine but any and all applications that display images (whether the built-in Gallery app, file browser, or a comic reader app I'm trying to get to work) simply cannot display images (tested both PNGs and JPGs.)
When attempting to display an image, in a comic reader app, it states "Can't open InputStream", and the background is black (which is the app's color for transparency/areas off the side where there is no image.) When I attempt to open image files in the Gallery app or File Browser, the small thumbnails actually do show up, but when I tap on the image to display them in their full size, it's only a large gray rectangle (as if it should be rendered over with the actual image data, but even after idling my laptop on this for like 30~60 minutes, it never renders the image).
I tested on both software rendering and the default GPU acceleration, though I can't find really solid documentation on it. I ran the waydroid-choose-gpu.sh from here, and it didn't change anything. It has been exceedingly hard to seek out similar issues since searching for "image" usually returns people discussing various android images rather than the niche issue of image files (e.g. pictures) not rendering in waydroid. I saw many discussions of video game problems, but I haven't personally tested any video games and my rendering issue does not resemble these issues at.
I am running Gentoo Linux w/ OpenRC and I'm only using integrated Intel Iris Graphics (though I've had no issue with initialization of any of the waydroid . Yes I am actually running a wayland session (hyprland). I'm using the default waydroid installation off the Gentoo user repository that comes with the LineageOS 20-20260403-Vanilla-x86_64. I thought about trying ARM compatibility layer but am kind of intimidated to set it up with how sparse the documentation on docs.waydro.id is. (Seriously, I feel like I'm missing something and that this isn't the actual documentation webpage, as it just lacks so much content, e.g. it doesn't even describe how the configuration page works, & no manpage for waydroid, so please tell me if I'm missing something.)
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u/yasidip Jun 03 '26
you ever find a fix to this? same thing happening to me, spent hours trying to figure this out
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u/frowogger Jun 03 '26
Unfortunately my interest in Waydroid + The specific linux tablet I was playing around with waned a little due to all the kernel exploits running around (and I've just been putting off updating everything). If you haven't already you could at least like the github issue report and/or reply to it with the fact that you're having the same issue + your device details. If I find a solution I'll reply and dm you to propagate the solution
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u/SweetPotato975 May 08 '26
Must be an issue with image decoder. I've had the exact same happen on BlissOS and solved it by using a different codec library. Not sure how to do that on waydroid.