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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid (lemdro.id)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

this is not really quite true, we have always been able to run androidx86/BlissOS in qemu which works about "as well" but with less integration, IE no "native like" windows

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But now the windows one is getting scrapped whereas Waydroid is presumably sticking around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

google play games is still really good, it's more or less just android inside of crosvm, usually android emulators are based on virtualbox, some are based on qemu