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Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
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Lmao just another thing Linux does better anyway.
What's the easiest way to run Android apps on Linux?
Waydroid
Waydroid
Waydroid or run Bliss OS in a VM.
BlissOS Zenith didnt boot for me poorly, and other versions are slightly outdated. But I will try another one.
Waydroidnruns a rootful LXD container I think, which is not isolated at all. An OCI image ran through Podman would be way better.
Novaspirit Tech did a decent video on setup. He is using Proxmox but there should be the same settings in KVM.
https://youtu.be/LEyElt_yP50?si=KunfaO39wYYEgryL
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I've been using BlueStacks. How do those compare to BlueStacks?
I'm guessing at the very least they have less ads than blue stacks, lol.
Bluestacks is full of Ads and junk. But it has actual additions to make it work with a keyboard. Waydroid wasnt able to register multi-input for me, which makes basically any game unplayable.
But the android app smart autoclicker is the perfect replacement for bluestacks things.
Thank you! That's a helpful comparison.
Think there's also an official emulator from android studios but I could be wrong
Yes. Built into Android Studio. Has existed for at least five years. However I only ever used it with the apps I was developing and never even considered using it as a means to launch outside apps. That probably would have been painful.
So could theoretically install waydroid in WSL?
someone did that before microsoft had even released WSA but I don't see anything about people doing it recently. probably someone is working on it right now though, given this news.