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.

  • caseyweederman
    3·
    8 months ago

    You need a custom kernel, or a kernel module plus DKMS and kernel headers for your current kernel.
    You also need the package that handles whatever filesystem they use for their containers.
    Then, you need to be running it on Wayland or else it doesn’t work.
    The part that I’m stuck on is running games, which gives an error about not being able to find libmain.so, which might be an architecture mismatch problem. Maybe I can virtualize that part? But at that point I might as well just buy a phone.