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.

  • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

    thats because it was running natively

  • CCF_100@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The app ran super smooth as if it was running natively

    That’s because it is native! Waydroid runs an android container on top of your existing kernel. You will notice that you can even see the Android processes while running Waydroid in a top utility.

    • kevincox@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      Although the Android kernel is slightly customized isn’t it? I thought it exposed a few extra syscalls. How do these work on Waydroid?

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    0·
    6 months ago

    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

    • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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      6 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.