I used to hate android emulators, since the ones I’d tested on Windows were ad-ridden, slow bloatware.

The other day I needed to run an android app on Fedora 40.

I tried Waydroid and it worked very well. The app ran supersmooth as if it was running natively.

Also the cli syntax was very sane an user friendly.

waydroid app install|run|list …

So if you need an Android app on linux the experience might be better than what you think it would be.

  • @Plaksys
    4•1 month ago

    At what point did it not work for you? I just got it running on Fedora 40 following their wiki.

    • TFO Winder
      3•1 month ago
      Failed to get service waydroidplatform

      on doing waydroid app install myapk.apk

      ERROR: WayDroid container service is already running

      IT says already running on doing sudo waydroid container start

      • @Plaksys
        4•1 month ago

        I got it into android “desktopt” previously, but now after rebooting and trying to install an apk it seems to no longer be opening at all. Sorry :/

        Edit: I just uninstalled and reinstalled via the software Center and now it works and I could install F-Droid.

          • Quack Doc
            1•1 month ago

            ah my bad, I misread, I thought you had tried sudo waydroid app install.

            Failed to get service waydroidplatform usually happens when something fails when communciating to the container, this usually means the container is partially loaded so you will need to stop it and start again, you may even need to do a full reboot