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It's been a while since the last time this was asked, so here goes again: what specific apps do you use Waydroid to run?

Whenever I get the itch to play around with this impressive project, I quickly remember that I can't think of anything to actually do with it. There's already a Linux native app for almost everything that isn't an ad infested game, so I'm curious if anyone has use cases for Waydroid that they can share. I'd love to hear about something cool that I didn't think of!

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago

The one thing I've been thinking about (but haven't yet done) is using it for the Insta 360 camera app (an app for editing/exporting videos from 360 panoramic cameras). It's actually more feature rich than the desktop version, which doesn't have a linux version in any case, so using it to quickly reframe my videos and export them to something non proprietary would be a whole lot easier...

Maybe I'll try and get that working today...