[android-developers] Re: Run applications without qemu
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 gons...@gmail.com 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Run applications without qemu
There's a simulator but google folks have been saying it's not maintained except when they really need it. It's not a clean solution as android needs services which a normal operating system kernel (even non-android linux) do not naturally provide. There's an x86 build of android that you can run in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox, which is much much faster at most things since it only has to trap privileged instructions and not emulate an arm processor, but unfortunately it has dreadfully slow mouse cursor touch emulation. So it's really fast at installing your apk and starting it up, but unpleasant to actually use. Hopefully this gets fixed. Also being x86 rather than arm it would need custom builds of any ndk libraries in your project (not a concern if you only have java code) On Sep 20, 7:14 pm, Gonsolo gons...@gmail.com 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
