Yes. Waydroid is very nice. What do you use it for? I've come to the realization I don't really need a lot of Android apps on my laptop, I have good Linux software for 99.9% of the stuff I do. So Waydroid mostly sits there, unused, while I use a regular Linux messenger client and Google Maps on the website.
I use it exclusively to control my a/c's thermostats as an ios or android app is the only way to do it remotely.
It's waydroid on linux.
Doesn't Waydroid require Wayland instead of XWindows?
Because my Linux PC is also my gaming PC, which for historical reasons (used to be a Windows PC) has a NVidia card, and from what I've read Wayland is a lot more problematic with NVidia drivers than XWindows.
Last time I went to install Waydroid I just stopped half way and reverted it because their website says it requires Wayland.
For the past few months I've used Wayland with Bazzite and Nvidia, with no apparent issue. I might have issues or missing features I don't realize, and if there was a performance degradation it was small enough I didn't notice.
Tldr; YMMV, but works for me
i use x11 and i run weston on top of x11 and waydroid inside it. seems to work fine
Interesting.
I'm having a look at documentation about it and weston does indeed seem like a pretty straightforward way of having a Wayland compositor on top of X11 (or per the documentation, on top of pretty much anything) to run applications that expect such a compositor, like Waydroid.
I think I might give that a try.
Thanks.
So, if you had a linux phone, you could still run all android apps as is? Given you have an .apk I suppose?
If you can get the app. I looked at Waydroid and other apps, but discovered that app I needed was only on the google play store. (I want to see when my kid's bus will arrive - there is no web site, just an app. I suspect it needs google logins or something to use, but I gave up before I figured out how to download the .apk)
For the future, apkmirror.com is the easy answer for your needs
You can use Aurora Store, it's an open source client for the play store. Just probably don't sign into it with your real google account since it violates the play store tos
No, the architecture still needs to match. If you android app supports x86, you're good. Otherwise, you can technically emulate ARM64 and run it, but the performance will suck ass.
Most Apps are just Java/Kotlin code, which is converted into your CPUs instruction set at runtine.
So usually this will not be a problem. Unless you use some kind of hyperoptimised App, which should be rare.
wait, java (&kotlin) are cross platform?
:O
Always have been.
That was actually one of the reasons for Java becoming popular.
Virtualization makes it a lot easier to work in different environments
So, basically that article has been written with the purpose to show their users the BlueStacks sponsorship, while bashing on slow and clunky emulators like BlueStacks ๐
Would it work on Windows using WSL?
Is cygwin still around?
Yes but you don't need it. WSL2 comes with WSLg these days, and can draw to your Windows desktop without an external graphical server.
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