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What do you use Waydroid for? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried Waydroid on Arch and its amazing. It runs Android apps flawlessly. And with a touchscreen device, I feel like I have an Android tablet running inside my Linux machine.

But I still don't know what to use it for...

What apps do you use with Waydroid? What use cases do you have for it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Used to use it for Apple Music but Cider 2 does what I want now, especially since Apple started locking down AM on rooted devices (of which Waydroid basically is) for no good reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cider doesn't support lossless, but then again neither does the version of android supported by waydroid currently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was able to get lossless back then. It's a matter of enabling fake_wifi for the app in Waydroid. You have to play a track for it to activate, but that's also a bug I've experienced on my actual phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I could enable it in the app, but Android versions below 10 resample everything down to 16 bit / 44.1 khz and Waydroid is stuck on Android 9 for now.

Now I guess I'd have to pass safety net or hide root and I can't be bothered. I just plug my phone into the dac instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah I got a headphone dongle for my phone. Cider 2 is still nice though, 256kbps AAC (whether CBR or VBR) is fine for most people, and it seems to stay in that bitrate.