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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

from what i can tell, waydroid has some translation layers libndk or libhoudini. however majority of android apps require some kind of java runtime. native apps you (the ndk build system) generally create a release for arm + x86 and its up to the release pipeline to build for each platform. i don't use waydroid much outside of playing around with it for a few minutes when i get bored. however I'm curious if a lot of the issues people have with waydroid is because of taking an arm version of the apk from their phone and not grabbing a x86 one?

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (1 child)

    Is there an x86 build of every app?

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago

    no but the dev controls it. if the dev is using the ndk and the dev is not doing the extra step of disabling/configuring it there should be in "fat" apk with each binary for each platform according to the docs. then the installer can figure out which version to use.

    the x86(/_64) version is used for Chromebooks i believe. some devs will split the apk if they configured it to reduce size so you would need to specifically go get an x86 apk version.

    the cases where a dev would disable it is if they only want to support specific instructions that might be platform specific or say a library they use doesn't support target ABIs

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