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I tried Waydroid on Arch and its amazing. It runs Android apps flawlessly. And with a touchscreen device, I feel like I have an Android tablet running inside my Linux machine.

But I still don't know what to use it for...

What apps do you use with Waydroid? What use cases do you have for it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My friend asked me to use xbox live chat so I'm probably going to try using waydroid for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Does it still run Roblox? Since it stopped working under wine (again) I read it was the only way to get Roblox on Linux.

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

Ive thought about using it for bank apps so I dont have hassle if I lose the phone or it gets robbed. Has anyone tried this ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I imagine it would fail CTS and SafetyNet. Kind of curious if shizuku works on it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only way I can know the monthly rent amount, is through an Android app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That should be an ADA violation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If I was in the US.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's actually horrid. My router is android only and I thought that was bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lotta people in here saying what they use it for, but the only ppl I know irl running waydroid are playing softcore gatcha games on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I miss Dragalia Lost
I should see what the community servers are up to

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't gotten to it, but I'd like to try and set it up as an android TV replacement. Just have distro of choice load on boot with Bluetooth remote/controller for input

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did have some scripts to do this more properly but the shift to A11 broke a lot of stuff, I plan on revisting it when the A13 (or was it A12) work is done and released as stable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd imagine the drm would ruin that plan. No HD streaming.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People with linux phones use it to run android apps: Signal because using electron is worse than waydroid for battery life, banking apps, bullshit government apps without web versions, etc. It's terrible for battery life, but it works.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also, thr emulated Android web browser runs much smoother than any native one

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