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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid (self.linux)

submitted 6 months ago by mfat 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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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it can't run stuff compiled for ARM, right?
I hit a speed bump and I haven't had time to fully investigate but I too would like to run games.

[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

we can if you load libhoudini or libndk, but both are proprietary so they arent included by default, casual snek's waydroid-extras

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, thank you. I'll try that tonight.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

It worked! But the menus are bugging out in the game itself so I'll need to tinker some more I guess.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What if Fedora is running on ARM?

[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

it should have pretty good support but you may need to use this script to spoof the device for some stuff https://github.com/Quackdoc/waydroid-scripts/blob/main/spoof-device.sh