Waydroid

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Waydroid, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Fails silently on launch, then screen flickers between black and desktop2026-01-28
Endless "app is not responding" dialogs appear even when the app is responding fine2025-10-12
Apps crash when resized in separate windows, though full UI mode works2025-01-07
Android doesn't detect the physical keyboard, so the layout can't be chosen2021-09-23
Scrolling the recent apps list is laggy with low frame rate2021-09-23