I tried Waydroid on Arch and its amazing. It runs Android apps flawlessly. And with a touchscreen device, I feel like I have an Android tablet running inside my Linux machine.

But I still don’t know what to use it for…

What apps do you use with Waydroid? What use cases do you have for it?

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Used to use it for Apple Music but Cider 2 does what I want now, especially since Apple started locking down AM on rooted devices (of which Waydroid basically is) for no good reason.

    • CedarMadnessEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Cider doesn’t support lossless, but then again neither does the version of android supported by waydroid currently

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I was able to get lossless back then. It’s a matter of enabling fake_wifi for the app in Waydroid. You have to play a track for it to activate, but that’s also a bug I’ve experienced on my actual phone.

        • CedarMadnessEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I could enable it in the app, but Android versions below 10 resample everything down to 16 bit / 44.1 khz and Waydroid is stuck on Android 9 for now.

          Now I guess I’d have to pass safety net or hide root and I can’t be bothered. I just plug my phone into the dac instead

          • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Yeah I got a headphone dongle for my phone. Cider 2 is still nice though, 256kbps AAC (whether CBR or VBR) is fine for most people, and it seems to stay in that bitrate.