Waydroid infos needed :)
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I was speaking with many people about ubuntu touch and they was asking about waydroid a lot. I have some basic idea about source of troubles. I would like to ask on experience with android apps. Which applications perfectly works, which apllication works, but they are limited, which doen't work. The limits of each application are also interesting. For example whatsapp works but drains battery. Does also notifications and calls work? I would like to have some idea about common apps such as spotify, discord, slack, netflix, skype, tiktok, dropbox, signal, uber, pinterest, here maps, waze, google meet, zoom, instagram, viber, webex. I am curious about banking/payments apps, possibly some guitar tunner app, some speech to text app, gadget bridge (smartwatch app). People have usually some application/vendor lock-in which prevents them to migrate to ubports.
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@jmlich I'm using waydroid in the United Kingdom (UK) on a Volla phone X23 running ubuntu touch 20.04.
These all work reliably unless I have added a comment.
Ancestry
Apkpure
Aurora
Bluewallet
Car scanner - not tested yet but launches
F-droid
Simple file manager
Firefox
Forecastie
Ftp server free - launches but cant onnect to ftp endpoint
Hive
Hl hargreaves lansdown - wont launch
Id mobile
Imaging edge mobile (sony camera app) - cant connect to wireless network. I have been given a possible solution
Instagram - yes including notifications
K9 mail
M&s bank
Musiccast (yamaha hifi dashboard) - cant connect to wireless network. I have been given a possible solution
My citroen
Nationwide bank
NHS
Simple notes
Postcode - shows error message but works
Readrops (rss app) - works. Fails to import backup of feeds but this may be a general readrops bug
Redreader (reddit app)
RT News
Safepal (crypto wallet)
See tickets - wont launch
Starling bank - launches but refuses to run on unlocked phone firmware
Swissborg (crypto exchange) - wont launch
Tor browser - can also use ubuntu touch onion surf app but this is not on 20.04 yet
Vehicle smart - wont launch
Whatsapp - can also use ubuntu touch whatsweb app but this is not on 20.04 yet -
@jmlich Signal (and Whatsapp) working fine too. Sharing files from Ubuntu to Waydroid still giving some rights problem so sharing photos from your ubuntu camera to Signal and Whatsapp is has some strugless. But than again, the Camera app on Waydroid is doining fine too.
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@jmlich In my opinion if you need Android apps a lot, UT is not a good choice. Waydroid is a good complement of UT for Android apps you really need, but if you need a lot of them, I think a good advise is to better stay in Android. For instance if you use Whatsapp a lot, UT will not be ideal.
You should use UT if you have UT apps for all your basic needs, except a few ones, like bank apps or public apps only available in Android and Iphones.
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@wgarcia Acctually, I don't use any android applications, but waydroid sound like a way to bypass gap until native applications are written. There is usually one or two apps which locks people to android.
@treebeard thanks for nice overview of your waydroid experience.
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@jmlich said in Waydroid infos needed
:@wgarcia Acctually, I don't use any android applications, but waydroid sound like a way to bypass gap until native applications are written. There is usually one or two apps which locks people to android.
In that case UT works well, but some people think they can keep both an Android phone and a UT phone with Waydroid, which is not the case.
