Podroid

• New
• Seamless updates: the Linux system inside the VM now upgrades across app versions with no reset and no data loss. Your installed packages, files, and containers carry over when you update Podroid. Server mode: a one-tap full-screen black overlay that keeps the VM running headless with the screen dimmed and burn-in protected; hold to exit. Drive it from the shell with podroid-server on|off|status. New in-guest commands: podroid-open <url> opens a link on Android, and podroid-power stop|restart|status controls the VM from inside the shell. UDP port forwarding now works on the AVF backend, matching QEMU (podroid-forward add <host> <guest> udp). When an AVF guest fails to boot, Podroid now shows what to do next (try a single core, switch to QEMU, or retry) instead of a blank failure, and captures early-boot kernel output to help diagnose it. A Documentation link in Settings -> About opens the online guide. Fixes
• On devices whose virtualization build lacks the custom-VM API, Podroid now falls back to the QEMU backend automatically instead of failing to start. Broad reliability hardening across the AVF backend, the guest-to-Android bridge, and server mode. Known limitation
• With an external mouse, right-click still exits fullscreen in the X11 viewer instead of reaching the desktop. Two-finger right-click via touch works. A fix is planned.

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