A known leaker and SteamVR data miner named Bradley Lynch reports that Valve is working on an Android emulator. Lynch has spotted five apps in a package on SteamDB, with two of them displaying new artwork that references Waydroid, an open-source and free Android emulator.
SteamDeck, emulate everything.*
The Deck is what have me the confidence to move to Linux on desktop. I wouldn’t have switched if not for Valve.
translation is kind of native though. It is almost like porting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool
Yeah it’s pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.
Sadly that’s mostly true, but that may have more to do with devs lack of experience with Linux in general. Often they would have to outsource the port to Aspyr or another team.
Regardless of what the website says, waydroid isn’t an emulator by any meaningful definition.
It’s a container that runs on top of your regular linux kernel (with some very cool desktop integration features), java/kotlin applications run as natively as they’d run on your phone.
That’s interesting. I didn’t know that. I tried working with Waydroid once on Bazzite on an older desktop of mine and didn’t get terribly far with it.