It's an interesting thought though. If Android apps could be made to run fast on a host OS, and given the size and nature of most of the apps, it might make a nice widget layer.
On Nov 10, 12:47 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > For that to happen, surely we'd need a faster emulator than the > current QEMU-based one. It's currently much faster to deploy to a real > connected device than a virtual one. As nice as the emulator is, speed > is not it's best feature. So for what you propose, I think it would > make more sense to compile natively (x86). I would be surprised if > this is not somehow a feature of the rumored Chrome OS. > > On Nov 10, 6:04 am, JamesJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I was just thinking, and realized that if someone polished up the > > emulator a bit, full screen, with some bindings for keys and controls, > > wouldn't it be possible for a windows machine to just run Android very > > nicely as an application? Does anyone think that we might see users > > cross the line and actually use some Android apps on other platforms > > through emulation? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
