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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 28 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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.

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