DriveDroid was a tools app developed by Softwarebakery. It was removed from Google Play Jan 4, 2025 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
DriveDroid had been downloaded 2.5 million times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
DriveDroid was rated 3.62 out of 5 stars, based on 9.5 thousand ratings.
App Information
DriveDroid was free to download. The APK download size was 4.74 MB. The last available version was 0.10.50. The last update was on October 7, 2018.
Technical Requirements
DriveDroid required Android 4.0.3+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play November 2012.
Description
This application requires root
DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives.
DriveDroid also includes a convenient download menu where you can download USB-images of a number of operating systems from your phone (like Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Arch Linux). Around 35 different systems are available at this moment.
You can also create blank USB-images which allows you to have a blank USB-drive. From your PC you can store files onto the USB-drive, but also use tools on your PC to write images to the drive.
Notes • This application uses features of the kernel that may or may not be available/stable on your phone. Tests have shown most phones work without problems, but please keep in mind yours might not (yet) work out-of-the-box. • Most kernels support emulating USB drives, some support emulating CD-rom drives and kernels with the right patches support both. • Most Linux-related ISOs can be booted from USB drives, but some ISOs can only be booted from CD-rom drives or require some kind of conversion.
Paid version • No ads. • Resizing of images. • Add your own download repositories. Nice for companies or groups that want to share custom or licensed images.
More info: http://softwarebakery.com/projects/drivedroid
Recent changes: * Upgrade target to Android 9 * Upgrade several inner dependencies * Fixed several crashes
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Comments on DriveDroid for Android
★★★★★
Works absolutely amazing on A12/13 w/o any issues. Note: check, double-check your images and make sure they are bootable and that your phone is actually connected (After mount click on the top-bar showing the currently mounted file).
★★★★★
Absolutely brilliant! Just can't see why this functionality is not available out-of-the-box in android....
★★★★★
Works well on my rooted OnePlus 8 Pro. Very useful to install OS on computers, using phone as USB stick. You can even create empty USB images, that you can format from your computer as a regular USB flash drive
★★☆☆☆
I hit install and then tried to cancel when I saw it was for root, and now it won't cancel it!? My Google Play Store keeps crashing when I hit the fricking cancel button!
★★☆☆☆
A year or two ago this was the reason one had to root his/her mobile. But unfortunately this app stopped being maintained and no longer works on recent devices. Now on android 11 (and latest magisk) it does not show the image device, although your PC will detect the mass storage subsystem being presented. But the worst part is that after you tell the app to eject the image, it will no longer restore the usual behavior of your phone's USB, and it will just leave it borked until you reboot it. Not pretty. You've been warned. This should just be removed from the play store if it's no longer going to be maintained. Google should pay attention and remove dead and abandoned apps like these and force authors that charge for their apps to return the money if they abandon them. If meanwhile anyone knows a working alternative, not abandoned by its author, it would be appreciated.
Technologies used by DriveDroid
DriveDroid is requesting 9 permissions and is using 19 libraries.
Permissions
Development tools
test access to protected storage
Network communication
view network connections,
full network access,
Google Play billing service
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.
AdMob
Android Jetpack core
Firebase
Kotlin
Google gson
Okio
Picasso
ReactiveX
Dagger
Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J)
Crashlytics
fabric
Material Dialogs
MaterialProgressBar
Android In-App Billing Library