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Whats your opinion on waydroid, is it better to have an Android OS on VB or use that one? Not sure i can make aurora function properly yet

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[–] TaintTaul@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I may, I'd rather prefer a translation layer like Wine, but for Android. Thankfully, it's in the works. Soon™.

I do expect that Waydroid's stocks will increase tremendously as Valve's Lepton is based on it.

As for your query, it depends mostly on your sensibilities:

  • Waydroid is lighter and is ever so slightly better integrated.
  • VB offers superior sandboxing (and thus improved security).

FWIW, I've had better experiences with Waydroid, but your mileage may vary.

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What is VB in this context, virtualbox?

Waydroid is way nicer.

[–] dabu@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I use an emulator from Android SDK which uses KVM as backend AFAIK. Performance is top notch and it doesn't use too many resources in my opinion