waydroid VS waydroid_script

Android on the desktop works very well on Wayland with Waydroid and it even supports Google Play store. https://waydro.id/

Great running apps not available on Linux with a touchscreen PC. It only seems to run Android apps compiled for x86, but it is very fast.

There are practical use cases, and it is very usable. I haven’t tried it on WSL2, but it seems like a practical approach without reliance on Microsoft.

> What's the best alternative?

Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux and some people claim have gotten it to work on WSL.

- Waydroid: https://waydro.id

Reddit threads:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/eofn...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/10y813d/is_it_pos...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/14e6t3g/does_maki...

There's a piece of software called Waydroid[1] that allows you to run Android applications on GNU/Linux platforms - including the PinePhone. Sxmo, despite its name, can run Wayland instead of X and therefore supports Waydroid.

Personally, I haven't managed to get Waydroid to work, a task hindered due to some massive initial downloads which are required to set it up. However, I haven't tried particular hard, and there are videos online by those more successful than me[2].

[1]: https://waydro.id/

[2]: https://tilvids.com/w/2b2f3a24-ae23-458e-a0fd-2f24a185a11b

Check out the Waydroid application.

> I run Fedora Linux after removing ChromeOS

Same here. Sometimes, it crashes on a measly 4 GB of RAM.

> (the only thing I'm missing is running Android apps)

I would recommend using Waydroid[1]. It runs fairly well in my use case, and runs LineageOS on top of it with the full LineageOS GUI.

[1]: https://waydro.id/

i am using KDE Neon (user edition) on two machines (thinkpad laptops with intel). On mentioned machines i would like to try and use waydroid: https://waydro.id/ Waydroid required wayland as display server (it will probably not work on x11).

Check (Waydroid)[https://waydro.id/]

Waydroid is rebuilding the original idea behind Anbox with explicit focus on modern Wayland powered desktop environments.

Hi OP, could this be what you're describing?

You should open an issue on GitHub then.

> It only seems to run Android apps compiled for x86

You can run ARM apps as well using libhoudini. Checkout: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script

> I haven’t tried it on WSL2, but it seems like a practical approach without reliance on Microsoft

Waydroid won't work on WSL2 as the kernel provided by MS doesn't have binder driver.

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 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.

where it says: "git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script cd waydroid_script sudo python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt sudo python3 waydroid_extras.py -h"

Maybe the installation instructions you found are out of date? If you look at the readme file here https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script the last install command is sudo python3 main.py [-i/-g/-n/-h/-w] under Then run:

and you can use use waydroid script to add libhoudini for armv7 and armv8a translation.

Remember to install libhoudini using casualsnek's scripts. Plus here is the newer version of libhoudini extracted from WSA.

Sign-in didn't work for me in the Gapps version. So I suggest you to install the non-gapps version and install Google play services later with Waydroid extras script.