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0 pointsdpark1mo ago0 comments

> As a separate point, it seems quite feasible to run Android apps in VM on Linux based phone and make the experience fairly seamless.

But why?

The premise of Waydroid seems to be to bring Android apps you want to your Linux desktop. But why would you want the phone in your pocket to run Desktop Linux so that you could then run Android apps on your Desktop Linux mobile phone instead of just running Android on your phone?

What desktop Linux features do you want on your phone that would justify this complexity?

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nout1mo ago

I want to use pre existing apps from the Android ecosystem, but I want the system to let me install and change anything I want. It looks like android is going to heavily restrict installing apps that are not on play store and there are now ~5 apps that I use that don't exist on Play store, but only on Obtanium or Zapstore.

My hope is that installation of the Android apps on Linux phone could be made seamless.

dparkOP1mo ago

It seems like an Android fork that supports the stores you want would be a lot simpler.

I’m sure Google would deny Google Play Services to any popular fork that didn’t follow their rules. But they would do the same to any Linux desktop or whatever that didn’t follow their rules, too, if it became popular.

nout1mo ago

Yeah, you have a good point that Android fork would cover a lot of what I'm asking.

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nout1mo ago

My hope is that installation of the Android apps on Linux phone could be made seamless.

dparkOP1mo ago

It seems like an Android fork that supports the stores you want would be a lot simpler.

nout1mo ago

Yeah, you have a good point that Android fork would cover a lot of what I'm asking.

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