Extremely positive experience with Waydroid

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

Followed their wiki

How did you setup?

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

Yeah I tried it on pop os a while back and never could get it running at all

Are yiu sure you're running Wayland and not X11?

Actually I was thinking of my arch system. You're right, I'm on x11

At what point did it not work for you? I just got it running on Fedora 40 following their wiki.

Failed to get service waydroidplatform

on doing waydroid app install myapk.apk

ERROR: WayDroid container service is already running

IT says already running on doing sudo waydroid container start

I got it into android "desktopt" previously, but now after rebooting and trying to install an apk it seems to no longer be opening at all. Sorry :/

Edit: I just uninstalled and reinstalled via the software Center and now it works and I could install F-Droid.

don't run sudo that breaks things

Followed their wiki

ah my bad, I misread, I thought you had tried sudo waydroid app install.

Failed to get service waydroidplatform usually happens when something fails when communciating to the container, this usually means the container is partially loaded so you will need to stop it and start again, you may even need to do a full reboot

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.

can you report your issues to the waydroid github or check on the fedora forums? the matrix and telegram chats are always open to help too if you have a bit of patience.

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