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Waydroid

The goal of being able to run Android apps on a laptop computer or on a GNU/Linux distribution has been the driving force behind several projects. The Android-x86 project seeks to run Android itself on common laptop and workstation hardware while projects like Anbox try to run Android apps on a GNU/Linux desktop using container technology. Today I'd like to look at another project which has the goal of running Android apps on both desktop and mobile GNU/Linux distributions. This young project is called Waydroid and its website suggests we can run many Android apps as though they were regular desktop applications.

There are some caveats to this wonderful plan of running Android apps on a desktop Linux distribution. One of the limitations is Waydroid needs to run in a Wayland graphical session. This essentially limits Waydroid to running on systems running recent versions of KDE Plasma or GNOME with compatible hardware. Though I had trouble finding specifics, it seems as though Waydroid needs specific kernel options to be enabled at build time - options which I'm told are incompatible with the Fedora family of distributions, unless we want to build a custom kernel.

Waydroid

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