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.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    302·
    2 months ago

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

      • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        google play games is still really good, it’s more or less just android inside of crosvm, usually android emulators are based on virtualbox, some are based on qemu

    • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      this is not really quite true, we have always been able to run androidx86/BlissOS in qemu which works about “as well” but with less integration, IE no “native like” windows