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[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

We know that it started as a fork of Waydroid

But:

Update: While Lepton was based from Waydroid at the beginning

It seems to be a lot more custom now. To the point where it’s being described as “not really Waydroid anymore” from those who are working on it

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

That is all really useful info to have. Google Play Games for Windows uses their own crosvm sandbox, which has a couple---but not many---hack-a-rounds to run regular apps & for Houdini (ARM translation). And Android source code makes multiple mentions of a container-based Android sandbox. What sucks is that Microsoft discontinued WSA & that Google won't release a modern standard desktop-based Android layer because it is so "security-concious" (aka fragile) that they are worried about users abusing the APIs it exposes.