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by immibis 191 days ago
No. There are a few that claim to, but none of them are actually any good. Waydroid, for instance, requires that your kernel is compiled in basically "Android mode" (e.g. binder enabled).
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How do the Android developer tools run Android apps on Linux then?
Inside a virtual machine which is easy to detect.
> Waydroid, for instance, requires that your kernel is compiled in basically "Android mode" (e.g. binder enabled).

Waydroid needs you to have a single kernel module, which is in mainline Linux and just happens to be disabled in many desktop builds. That hardly makes it an "Android mode" kernel, and I certainly see no reason why it should make the system no good.