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Extremely positive experience with Waydroid
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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That's because it is native! Waydroid runs an android container on top of your existing kernel. You will notice that you can even see the Android processes while running Waydroid in a top utility.
Although the Android kernel is slightly customized isn't it? I thought it exposed a few extra syscalls. How do these work on Waydroid?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Kernel_Modules
You must use a kernel with the android-specific modules compiled in, or use the
binder_linux-dkmsmodule. I've noticed using a kernel with them built in is generally easier to get working.some android kernels are, but AOSP itself can run perfectly happy on a vanilla kernel, just make sure your kernel was compilled with BINDER enabled, which yes, is upstream