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Any easy way to make apps not recognize they're not running on an actual android phone?

I've read some apps that love to take too much control run CPU related checks amongst other things.

No android experience or usecase, just wonder how that works and how one would workaround that.

I don't think the point of this is to get everything ever to work. Just getting well-behaved and free software apps to integrate better than with waydroid (by reimplementing a higher level of libraries, rather than running the entire OS) would already be huge.

These are usually simple heuristics based on device name, whether you're running a signed version of Android, etc. Thirty minutes on Stackoverflow will usually cover all the fingerprints most simple apps use.

If they're using Play Integrity, you're mostly out of luck. Xposed will usually have the latest bypass, but there's long periods where there aren't any.

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