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by Arnavion 619 days ago
>it doesn't do rootless windows (Android apps are rendered into a single window that contains an entire Android UI)

If you launch individual Android programs via `waydroid app intent ...`, they render as separate windows in the parent compositor. The single window for the entire Android UI is what you get if you run `waydroid show-full-ui`.
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seba_dos1 619 days ago
It's better to use the single window mode though. Splitting to separate windows is hacky and is never going to be 100% reliable unless completely reimplemented at a different layer.

I'm using Waydroid on my phone sometimes, and frankly, single window mode is all you need anyway.

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yjftsjthsd-h 619 days ago
Oh! Thank you, I will have to try that. Here I just got it working and stopped reading docs... oops...
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Arnavion 619 days ago
Note that the .desktop files that waydroid generates by default for each installed Android application already do that.
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