Extremely positive experience with Waydroid

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Linux@lemmy.ml – 205 points – 1 months ago

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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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.

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

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.

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