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Is Google going to make Android a nightmare?
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Does it run android apps?
Not really, no. I used Ubuntu Touch for about a year a few years ago and the method for running Android apps is essentially to run an emulator layer on the phone (anBox), which in practice is nearly unusable. It may have improved somewhat since then but I suspect you're still going to need a relatively beefy phone at minimum to run whatever solutions there are at a decent speed.
Not natively, but with help of containers. I found two projects and to be honest I don't know much about them yet, as I still use Android for device warranty reasons. (But I am eager to try as soon as the warranty expires.)
Anbox (discontinued since this year):
Waydroid took over and looks promising. https://waydro.id/
Of course you could also run Android emulators, but such container applications like Waydrois are more efficient.