Can you run popular Android games on linux phones? (lemmy.world)

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Recent AOSP news had me in shambles.

But I like my stupid games like clash of clans and royale.

My entourage has a lot of gamers. When we want to play together but don't have access to our computers, we can take out out phones and play a quick game of clash or some other stuff and I'd like to keep doing this.

I'm already a fanboy of Fedora & KDE which I'm running on both my personal and workplace machine. I'd like to also "clean" my phones.

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[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Waydroid's performance is pretty good.

I never tried any games through it my my guess is it would work, but...

Still may not be native performance.
Waydroid's VM takes a minute or so to start u0 for the first time, and eats a lot of RAM while its running.
Expect your battery to drain a good deal faster to play your Android game(s)

That said, I will re-emphasize that the performance of apps in Waydroid is pretty dang smooth once its running. I stopped using it on my phone since I no longer needed the one app I had it for.

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