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Android 17 sucks. So I put Linux on a phone.
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Would Android running in an LXC conatiner suffice? That's what SailfishOS offers, and many users report their ID apps working that way, also Swedes.
Not sure what you mean.
I wonder how hard it'd be to flash android on a pi zero or similar to display only the ID forever. I'd never put something like that on my phone.
You could just install Waydroid. It's recently become part of the Debian repos and supports armhf.
It should run fine with a fast microSD and nothing else running, considering the Pi Zero is a slow device.
Oh and the docs even say how to run Waydroid full screen and directly boot into it: https://docs.waydro.id/faq/setting-up-waydroid-only-sessions
I've tried SailfishOS AppSupport and Waydroid and the FOSS Waydroid seems to work better, so I'd try that.
Also, it runs on many more devices.