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.

  • TFO Winder
    170·
    5 months ago

    I just tried it 3 days ago on Fedora 40, Did not run for me.

    Followed their wiki

    How did you setup?

    • mFatOPEnglish
      70·
      5 months ago

      I don’t remember tbh. I installed it a couple of years ago but used it for the first only recently.

    • TrickDacy
      60·
      5 months ago

      Yeah I tried it on pop os a while back and never could get it running at all

      • mFatOPEnglish
        70·
        5 months ago

        Are yiu sure you’re running Wayland and not X11?

        • TrickDacy
          60·
          5 months ago

          Actually I was thinking of my arch system. You’re right, I’m on x11

    • Plaksys
      40·
      5 months ago

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

      • TFO Winder
        30·
        5 months 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
          40·
          5 months ago5 months 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
              10·
              5 months 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

    • caseyweederman
      30·
      5 months ago

      You need a custom kernel, or a kernel module plus DKMS and kernel headers for your current kernel.
      You also need the package that handles whatever filesystem they use for their containers.
      Then, you need to be running it on Wayland or else it doesn’t work.
      The part that I’m stuck on is running games, which gives an error about not being able to find libmain.so, which might be an architecture mismatch problem. Maybe I can virtualize that part? But at that point I might as well just buy a phone.

    • Quack Doc
      10·
      5 months ago

      can you report your issues to the waydroid github or check on the fedora forums? the matrix and telegram chats are always open to help too if you have a bit of patience.