It’s now possible to run Android applications in the same graphical environment as regular Wayland Linux applications with full 3D acceleration.
Running Android has some advantages compared to native Linux applications, for example with regard to the availability of applications and application developers.
For current non-Android systems, this work enables a path forward to running Android applications in the same graphical environment as traditional non-Android applications are run.
Running Android applications safely – as in, containerised, like this approach achieves – inside a regular Linux distribution seems like such an obvious feature. I would love to run a proper Twitter client and the YouTube application on my Linux desktop.
It would be nice to be able to run some Android games on a Linux desktop, for other apps I don’t really see a need, with a couple of touches my Android phone can act as a full-blown desktop.
Not sure what the desire to run Android Youtube and Twitter clients would be…. as that removes the ease of ad blocking that using a browser affords. I think it is just that the grass looks greener on the other side… which is silly when faced with binary closed source applications and advertisements as well as data collection.
TBH, I’m actually kind of with Thom on the YouTube part. Yes, it removes the ability to block ads, but I could care less about adds as 95% of what I watch on YouTube is short enough to just have an ad at the beginning which doesn’t really bother me (largely because time spent watching the add is time the actual video has to buffer further, and therefore usually translates to less chance of stuttering), and I actually _really_ prefer the Android YouTube UI over the web-based one.
Twitter I can’t comment on (I don’t use it at all), but I can think of a handful of other Android apps that either have no desktop/web version, or have a really horrendous desktop/web version that I would use this type of thing for (DoorDash for example, their Android app is consistently more reliable and faster for me than their web interface).