Basically, no. There is a simulator, but it is very poorly supported, has no integration with eclipse, and has pretty poor fidelity with the behavior of a real system since it does things like run the entire system and applications in a single process.
Also the emulator should run with at least the speed of the actual device (not taking into account things that use hardware acceleration like OpenGL) on reasonably decent desktop hardware. Finally, developing directly on a device is for the most part not much different than developing for the emulator, so if your machine is too slow to run the emulator, it is perfectly viable to just do all your development with the real device as your target. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM, a druid <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just a small newbie question: > > I understand, that the Android emulator is by definition and scope > slower than an I-phone simulator. > > However: > There are apps, which have to run on an emulator in order to emulate > hte entire HW. > However for a lot of algorithmic / GUI stuff a simulator would be more > than enough. > > > Is there any alternative to the emulator, which could be used for > verifying the GUI / > algorithmic part or the part, which just interacts with API's, that > exist also on a > PC? > > > Basically is there something like a dalvik viewer for linux / windows > ? > > > thannks ina dvance for any pointers. > This might help to accelerate development. > > On Apr 14, 10:59 am, walterc <[email protected]> wrote: > > we use emulator in android sdk which emulates the entire hardware > > stack, down to cpu instructions. iphone sdk uses simulator which does > > nothing of the sort. > > > > On Apr 14, 4:33 pm, "[email protected]" > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > PC is fairly up-to-date spec - AMD Athlon X2 2 GHz, 2 GB's of RAM. > > > > > Mac I don't have (yet), but I have been trolling on iPhone forums and > > > have heard that iPhone emulator is unrealistically fast. > > > > > On Apr 14, 9:04 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > What are the specs of the PC and Mac you're trying it on? > > > > > > Al. > > > > > > --- > > > > > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > > > > > ====== > > > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > > > > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > > > > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > > > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > > > > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > > > > subsidiaries. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [email protected] > > > > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > > > [email protected] > > > > Sent: 14 April 2009 09:04 > > > > To: Android Developers > > > > Subject: [android-developers] emulator speed > > > > > > Why is pc android emulator slower than real device but mac iphone > emulator > > > > faster than real device? > > > > > > I can understand the latter but not the former! > > > > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
