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

submitted 7 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] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

aren't a lot of games aarch64 only? do they even support x86? I've attempted in the past to use waydroid for a game, but no way to install it on an x86 machine. Does waydroid support some kind of box64 layer?

[–] Quackdoc 2 points 7 months ago

There is an unofficial script that ads arm emulation. Note before anyone asks, it will not become officially supported by waydroid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Only the ones that are written in compiling language. The ones written in java/cotlin can. Also, in x86 tablets there are special chips that have arm emulation in hardware for these compiled apps. But plain x86 desktop cpus don't have that. So it depends what app can work and what can't.