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Running Android apps on Ubuntu is surprisingly easy

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OMG! Ubuntu; By Joey Sneddon
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Ubuntu doesn’t run Android apps and games natively, but Waydroid is an open-source effort that lets you use them – and it’s now really easy to setup on Ubuntu. Earlier this year, Waydroid was packaged in Debian. That put it a simple apt install away on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and later. No need to add a PPA, find a third-party package or run scripts from Reddit threads. Waydroid runs a containerised…

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