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I would like to run the Android Revolut finance app with my Ubuntu laptop (Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS). Would you tell me how to achieve this?

(Here is a link to the app in order to avoid misunderstandings:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.revolut.revolut)

Unfortunately the app cannot be installed on my smart phone. The appstore says my phone is incompatible. So I would appreciate a way to run the app on my laptop instead.

Thankyou very much and wish you a wonderful day <(^_^)>

nuiun
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  • Have you tried any solutions yet? Some recent, similar questions have been closed as a duplicate of this question although, some of the answers are outdated. Arc welder is no longer available, but there are other solutions like genymotion appear to be supported. Also, running in a virtual box or similar machine, you can run Android x86 which runs from an ISO file like the Ubuntu installer but not all apps support AMD/Intel based or x86 like processors. – mchid Mar 05 '24 at 19:31
  • Also, what version of Ubuntu and which desktop setup are you using? Waydroid is supposed to work on a Wayland based desktop although personally, I tried it out and it didn't work for me and I didn't bother to try and get it working. Running Wayland instead of x11 seems to be a requirement, though. – mchid Mar 05 '24 at 19:33
  • There's also Android Studio from Google, which used as a testing and development environment although it can be kind of resource heavy. – mchid Mar 05 '24 at 19:37
  • I installed waydroid. The first impression is fine. My laptop has a touch screen and waydroid feels like a tablet OS with the screen ^^ I haven´t figured out how to install any apps from the appstore though. Also Revolut probably has some external dependencies. But I don´t know how to look them up and even if I did, I do not know how to install them using an emulated non-google Android OS. – nuiun Mar 05 '24 at 21:43
  • waydroid also ships without an appstore. So that would be needed as well in order to install Revolut and get updates... – nuiun Mar 05 '24 at 21:44
  • This is a finance app, so security should be considered. The apk must be retrieved reliably via a trusted source like google playstore or similar. – nuiun Mar 05 '24 at 22:04
  • APK Mirror is generally trusted as it's manually vetted by Android Police. Also, custom ROMs/emulators cannot bundle Play Store by default due to licensing. You have to manually flash Play Store frameworks, e.g. Open GApps. – Andrew T. Mar 06 '24 at 02:59
  • (at)AndrewT. thankyou, I will try APK Mirror

    (at)mchid I am using standard Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

     – nuiun Mar 06 '24 at 09:18
  • Bliss OS might be a good solution. It recommends a stand alone installation of the OS though... I'd like to my existing Ubuntu installation. – nuiun Mar 06 '24 at 11:27
  • Download the apk for the google play store to install the app from google play. – mchid Mar 06 '24 at 21:04

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You can use genymotion or waydroid to install android apps on Linux.

genymotion is an android phone emulator, and waydroid is more a sort of container that allow you to install an android app like it was an Linux application.

To install the Revolut finance app you will surely need google playstore. By default genymotions doesn't have google apps installed, you can achieve this by following theses instructions. For waydroid you have to select gapps on Android Type select at the first launch.

I hope this helps you.

Djantche Ngamo
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