I tried Waydroid on Arch and its amazing. It runs Android apps flawlessly. And with a touchscreen device, I feel like I have an Android tablet running inside my Linux machine.

But I still don’t know what to use it for…

What apps do you use with Waydroid? What use cases do you have for it?

  • kevincox
    15·
    9 months ago

    Playing Slay the Spire.

    It does have a native Linux version but it doesn’t sync cross-platform. So since I like playing on the go it is nice to also be able to play at home on a bigger screen.

    • GlenTheFrog
      51·
      9 months ago

      If it’s the Steam version, why not play through proton?

    • 1111@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Did it work out of the box for you? Doesn’t load for me on either of my machines that have waydroid

      • kevincox
        1·
        8 months ago

        Do you have an ARM emulator installed? I don’t think the game ships an x86 build. Other than that it just worked.

        • 1111@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Is that what libhoudini is? I heard of it, but don’t recall if I installed it

          • kevincox
            1·
            8 months ago

            I think so. IIRC there are a few different implementations. But if you configure any of them Android will automatically use it to run non-native apps.