Waydroid (Vanilla OS) on Zorin 17.2 Pro doesn't open after install like

I found under Running android apps on Zorin. So Waydroid & Anbox are both no longer maintained?

a way to get install waydroid onto my laptop.

Install via

Going by this Install Instructions - Waydroid website, the commands

sudo apt install curl ca-certificates -y
curl https://repo.waydro.id | sudo bash
sudo apt install waydroid -y

"in order worked for me. After typing these commands you have to click the waydroid icon which should appear in your applications list (or type waydroid in the terminal) and go through the GUI installation process. I would suggest going through the vanilla installation and not the G-apps one because some certificates are missing so the google apps are practically useless anyways

Just a side note, to close waydroid you have to type waydroid session stop because the gui close button doesn't seem to work for me. Also, to install android apps I recommend downloading the f-droid apk from their website, installing it in waydroid and then again installing the aurora store from there which can grab play-store apks for you."

But after the install of the vanilla os I may not open waydroid with a click on it.

How may I do this or does a simple solution exist to open such apk files to try on my Zorin OS 17.2?

Thank you!

Take a look a this thread:

It's possible you just need to change the display server from Xorg to Wayland, as Waydroid won't work on Xorg. In that thread I show a work around this, though.

You're probably already running Wayland, however, since that's the default. It doesn't hurt to check: log out of your account and click on the wheel icon on the lower right:

Zorin desktop means you're using Wayland. Otherwise, you're using Xorg. Feel free to change without fear of breaking anything. If something doesn't work in one, try the other.