Re:Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
by ajvs on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:19PM
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From what I understand this is aimed only at ARM, so there's no emulation. This is therefore targeting Linux phones, but not Linux on desktop (which is usually run on x86).
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Re:Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
by tgtweak on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:11PM
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From what I saw on docs, it seemed to be agnostic to host linux architecture (x86 or arm host), but it did say (on the desktop guide):
> The apk files you will sometimes find on the internet tend to only have arm support, and will therefore not work on x86_64.
Suggesting that they don't provide cross-abi compatability. If/when they move to Android 11 as the underlying image - it has both x86 and arm translations built into the packaged abi. I suspect that it will be on the user to install any abi translation packages (libhoudini for example) in order to get arm apk's to run on x86 host without qemu.