anbox VS waydroid_script

It's definitely possible, you have android virtualization options for linux like QEMU, VirtualBox, Anbox, WayDroid, but most of these are either not great or a bit too advanced for this. Easiest / best bet off the top of my head is dual booting Windows and using BlueStacks

This isn't really a distro, but you could try Anbox, which wouldn't have the performance overhead of a virtual machine.

Maybe with Anbox

If school apps have an android alternative anbox may allow you to use it on your linux desktop... Just a thought!

last commit was in september, seems like development has stalled. Let's pretend I said waydroid then.

Anbox - Android emulation (although AFAIU they're mostly a dead project now in favor of Waydroid... Although IIRC, Anbox does not require Wayland)

libhoudini and libndk are libraries that translate ARM instructions to x86. There's an installation script for Waydroid:

https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script

It is also worth to install the following tool on: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script

You can install 32 bit translation with libhoudini or libndk. Check here for info.

It installed fine using waydroid-skript

Doing these to setup Play Store, libndk arm translation, Widevine, Android ID, etc. And also install Magisk in it.

I managed to make Waydroid able to play Arknights & Blue Archive by doing this tinkering.

If anyone wants to give it a shot, here's what you need - Install Waydroid - If you're on X11, install Weston (Waydroid can only run on Wayland, but Weston will allow you to run Wayland within X11); run Waydroid by starting Weston, then inside the Weston window open a terminal and run waydroid start session from there - Use an android image with Google Apps installed (or install google apps into your image) - Get rid of the "uncertifid device" error through https://www.google.com/android/uncertified - for this you'll need your android id, which you can get using the following command (after submitting your android id to google you'll need to wait 10-20 Minutes for the changes to take effect. You may also need to wipe the cache of the Google Play Services app) echo 'ANDROID_RUNTIME_ROOT=/apex/com.android.runtime sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "select * from main;"' | sudo waydroid shell | grep android_id - Install ARM instruction translation (libndk) into your android image. The waydroid_script tool helps a lot with this: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script