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Hey there, I've been using Bluestacks as my main android emulator for a while, but I disliked how bloated it is, especially that their cloud service app comes preinstalled.

Im wondering if there are other android emulators that are good to use. I've already heard about emulators such as:

I haven't actually tried most of these myself yet since I don't quite trust them. They are quite sketchy and heavily advertised

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Waydroid only fits a small number of configurations, including Wayland and x86. I definitely wish there was something like Bluestacks for Linux

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Once it runs it absolutely slaps though! I'm not sure why it's wayland-only, it still just runs in a window anyway. Nothing seems to really require Wayland there.

But of everything, the performance is impressive, as it's just a container. Makes for a sick tablet on the 2-in-1 netbooks.