Signal is working on a standalone version of its desktop app that does not require a smartphone. Signal Desktop will also gain additional options when used as a linked device.
Signal won’t run in the background in Waydroid in UBPorts: as soon as you close Waydroid, whatever runs inside dies.
Also, if you want to run something else in Waydroid, it can’t run in parallel for some reason. So I’d have to kill Signal to run my banking app for example, then restart Signal - and be careful never to close the window as I use the cellphone throughout the day.
Yep. Signal on mobile Linux - or the lack thereof - is entirely what’s still keeping me on Android. Other than that, UBPorts is perfectly usable for me. It’s just that one thing…
Just run Signal in Waydroid?
Signal won’t run in the background in Waydroid in UBPorts: as soon as you close Waydroid, whatever runs inside dies.
Also, if you want to run something else in Waydroid, it can’t run in parallel for some reason. So I’d have to kill Signal to run my banking app for example, then restart Signal - and be careful never to close the window as I use the cellphone throughout the day.
Not super usable…
thats kinda cursed
Yep. Signal on mobile Linux - or the lack thereof - is entirely what’s still keeping me on Android. Other than that, UBPorts is perfectly usable for me. It’s just that one thing…
maybe waydroid in docker could work?
cursed container inception
idk