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I ditched Android emulators for this open-source app (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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The open source project I stumbled upon that allows you to run Android apps on PC is Waydroid....it takes a container-based approach to running a full Android system directly on Linux

Alas given how it works it only works on Linux.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

Doesn't Waydroid require Wayland instead of XWindows?

Because my Linux PC is also my gaming PC, which for historical reasons (used to be a Windows PC) has a NVidia card, and from what I've read Wayland is a lot more problematic with NVidia drivers than XWindows.

Last time I went to install Waydroid I just stopped half way and reverted it because their website says it requires Wayland.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    For the past few months I've used Wayland with Bazzite and Nvidia, with no apparent issue. I might have issues or missing features I don't realize, and if there was a performance degradation it was small enough I didn't notice.

    Tldr; YMMV, but works for me

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I'm on Pop!OS which comes with X11 by default, so I'm very wary of trying to change it to use Wayland as I don't wan't to risk breaking my gaming PC (followed by who knows how many days of mucking about with it to fix it) which is supposed to just be for coming home after work and relaxing.

    Is there another way of running Android apps on Linux?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    i use x11 and i run weston on top of x11 and waydroid inside it. seems to work fine

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Interesting.

    I'm having a look at documentation about it and weston does indeed seem like a pretty straightforward way of having a Wayland compositor on top of X11 (or per the documentation, on top of pretty much anything) to run applications that expect such a compositor, like Waydroid.

    I think I might give that a try.

    Thanks.

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