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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid (lemdro.id)
submitted 4 months ago by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think a part of your positive experience is also thanks to Linux. Android emulation works better on it because the difference between Linux and Android is not that big and definitely not as big as between Windows and Android. Though Waydroid rocks anyways

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 23 points 4 months ago

It took a long long time until Android emulators on Linux worked even close to what has been available on Windows.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, Waydroid uses lxc containers.

[–] alteredEnvoy@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] progandy@feddit.de 15 points 4 months ago

If you need arm, then you probably have to install libhoudini https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.one 8 points 4 months ago

A lot of android apps are built using Java/Kotlin, so you don't actually need to care about architecture since the JVM supports both x86_64 and arm64.

There are exceptions to this though, since some apps need to run native code. Those apps would need some sort of emulation/translation layer for the arm instructions.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Android emulation works better on it because the difference between Linux and Android is not that big

To be clear, the difference between Linux and Android is about the same as the difference between Linux and Fedora, in that they are both Linuxes. That's why this works, and why the reverse (running GNU/Linux apps and even entire systems on Android) is possible as well.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I meant a desktop Linux distro, not the kernel itself. And Android has a ton of bloatware on top of it so it's not really the same thing. Android has like a double decker kernel