I used to hate android emulators, since the ones I’d tested on Windows were ad-ridden, slow bloatware.

The other day I needed to run an android app on Fedora 40.

I tried Waydroid and it worked very well. The app ran supersmooth as if it was running natively.

Also the cli syntax was very sane an user friendly.

waydroid app install|run|list …

So if you need an Android app on linux the experience might be better than what you think it would be.

  • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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    2 months ago

    The documentation says:

    Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.

    To my understanding this isn’t even emulation but regular container technology.

    • alteredEnvoy@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      2 months ago

      Wouldn’t some Android Apps require specific builds for x86 architectures? Does Android take care of that?

      • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        most android apps are architecure agnostic “java, kotlin etc” and even apps that are often ship “Universal binaries” which include x86, or split builds for arm and x86