Re: Android emulator

From	Rastko <lylecorman@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Android emulator
Date	2016-03-12 13:10 +0100
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Eclipse on Windows was something of a usable disaster, which I
can't say for Android Studio, which is both a disk, CPU and memory hog.

It apparently needs a lot of config to work.

As far as emulator goes, I had to ditch the official emulator (rebranded
QEMU), simply because I don't have hardware virtualization functions on
my processor. I've decided to use Android-x86-eeepc on VirtualBox, but
this will only work up to version 4.0 or something, later ones require
VT-x as the official emulator does.

You can install the eeepc image on virtual disk, so you can have
writable file system; you can push files via remote shell, setup SL4A
scripting engine, use Bridged Networking for LANning to it, and many
other stuff (Debugging is a given). It's MUCH faster (I guess cutdown)
then the official emulator+images, can't seem to figure out why... It
probably lacks something, but for developer work does the job.

I tried recently official emulator+images on a VT-x machine with HAXM,
it IS faster, but hickups every now and then. And I must say, it is a
tad slower than the unofficial x86+VirtualBox... or so it seems.

On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 23:03 -0600, Peter Easthope wrote: 
> https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools indiates 
> that Android SDK is a rather complex beast.
> 
> Suppose a user needs one or a few Android apps 
> but is not particularly interested in owning an 
> Android device.  Is installation of Android SDK 
> to a small laptop and app usage there feasible?  
> Or not worth the distraction and better to buy 
> a tablet or smartphone?
> 
> Thanks,        ... Peter E.
>

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Android emulator "Peter Easthope" <peter@easthope.ca> - 2016-02-27 06:50 +0100
  Re: Android emulator Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 15:00 +0100
    Re: Android emulator Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2016-02-27 18:10 +0100
    Re: Android emulator David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-02-27 19:10 +0100
  Re: Android emulator Rastko <lylecorman@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 13:10 +0100

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