the download is absurdly massive. Although it makes sense that you’d need an Android OS image to run Android, it’s bigger than the copy of Arch I used to run it
integration with the host OS is poor - be nice if copy-paste worked, and file transfer was easier
super-sluggish, even on quite powerful computers
never idle, makes my laptop run hot
Okay, it’s emulating ARM64, and emulators need a lot of CPU, but since Android apps are compiled to “Google’s own version of Java” and are JIT compiled to suit the phone CPU, should be possible just to compile them to AMD64 instead and run native.
If there’s an app that only exists on Android and has no desktop / web equivalent, it’s a workable solution, but it does entail compromises.
For me;
the download is absurdly massive. Although it makes sense that you’d need an Android OS image to run Android, it’s bigger than the copy of Arch I used to run it
integration with the host OS is poor - be nice if copy-paste worked, and file transfer was easier
super-sluggish, even on quite powerful computers
never idle, makes my laptop run hot
Okay, it’s emulating ARM64, and emulators need a lot of CPU, but since Android apps are compiled to “Google’s own version of Java” and are JIT compiled to suit the phone CPU, should be possible just to compile them to AMD64 instead and run native.
If there’s an app that only exists on Android and has no desktop / web equivalent, it’s a workable solution, but it does entail compromises.
Don’t most apps have native code modules by now?
I copy and paste between waydroid and the host os all the time, so this one seems to have been fixed at least.