Droid Containers

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About this app

Droid Containers brings container technology to your Android device. Pull, manage and run Docker-style containers — all from a native Android app, with no root access and no Termux required.

Powered by a proot userspace container engine (ptrace-based filesystem isolation), it translates familiar Docker-style commands — pull, run, ps, logs, exec, rm, compose — into a clean, modern Android experience built entirely with Jetpack Compose and Material 3.

★ KEY FEATURES

🖼️ Image Pulling
A pure-Kotlin OCI Registry V2 client with streaming layer-by-layer download, resumable transfers and layer caching. Watch progress in real time.

🔄 Registry Mirrors
Multiple built-in mirror candidates with automatic failover, plus custom mirrors you can pin to the top.

📦 Container Management
Create, start, stop and remove containers. Stale RUNNING states are auto-corrected, with a unified error banner.

💻 Interactive Terminal
An interactive shell inside your containers, powered by a high-performance terminal emulator.

🧩 Compose-style Orchestration
Describe a group of services in YAML and bring the whole stack up or down in one tap — with dependency-aware startup ordering and failure rollback.

🌐 Remote Web Console
The app can run a built-in HTTP server (foreground service). Open http://: in any browser, sign in with a token, and manage images, containers and stacks from your desktop — with live pull progress and log streaming over SSE.

🐳 Docker Engine API Compatibility
A Docker Engine API subset (v1.43): point your existing tools — including Portainer — at http://: and run ps / run / stop / rm / pull / logs / exec remotely.

⚙️ Flexible Settings
Persistent configuration for registry mirrors, DNS, auto-start behavior and the remote console (Web/Docker switches, port, API token, audit log).

🌍 Four Languages
English, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Japanese built in.

★ WHO IS IT FOR?

• Developers who want to prototype and test Linux server images on the go
• Self-hosting enthusiasts exploring lightweight services on a spare phone
• Learners who want a hands-on container playground without a Linux box
• Engineers running edge/IoT workloads where a phone is the computer

★ REQUIREMENTS & NOTES

• Android 8.0+ (API 26), 64-bit devices only (arm64-v8a / x86_64)
• No root required — isolation is done in userspace via proot
• Containers share the host kernel; features relying on kernel namespaces or privileged operations are not available, and port publishing maps to the device's own network stack
• Best used on Wi-Fi; large image downloads may consume significant data and storage
• This app is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Docker, Inc. "Docker" is used only to describe the familiar command semantics and API compatibility.

What’s new

What's new in 1.2.4:
- Fixed DNS resolution failures inside containers (affecting adding cloud drives in alist and similar apps).
- Container DNS now follows the system network by default; the setting allows blank value and multiple DNS servers.