The short answer to your question is, as TreKing said, "get a device". That IS the only practical alternative.
But of course, developers don't want to spend the money on having all the different kinds of device necessary, so we do as much testing as we can either on a few chosen devices, or with the emulator. This is why what a lot of us do is launch the SDK, then the emulator, both at the start of our work session -- then keep the emulator running as long as we can. For once it has started up, though still slow (compared to some phones), the slowness is not nearly so annoying. Finally, the other posts should have made it clear by now why no, it is not as simple as a "GTK application that just opens a window and runs the app." On Sep 20, 4:14 pm, Gonsolo <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to develop/test/run applications without the slow > emulator based on qemu? > It thought Dalvik runs on a PC andn the platform is based on Java so > it should be possible to test Android applications without that slow > emulator. > I imagined a GTK application that just opens a window and runs the > app. This should be much faster than running the emulator. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
