Extremely positive experience with Waydroid

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.

HakFoo ,

I had a similar positive experience with Gamescope, which tamed a game that freaked out every time I moved the moude onto the other monitor.

Maybe Wayland's healthy place is as a secondary window system you launch inside your normal X11 session.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
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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

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

tfowinder ,

I just tried it 3 days ago on Fedora 40,
Did not run for me.

Followed their wiki

How did you setup?

mfat OP ,

I don't remember tbh. I installed it a couple of years ago but used it for the first only recently.

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