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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid (lemdro.id)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] CCF_100 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] CCF_100 13 points 7 months ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Kernel_Modules

You must use a kernel with the android-specific modules compiled in, or use the binder_linux-dkms module. I've noticed using a kernel with them built in is generally easier to get working.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

some android kernels are, but AOSP itself can run perfectly happy on a vanilla kernel, just make sure your kernel was compilled with BINDER enabled, which yes, is upstream