Re: Android emulator

2016-03-12 Thread Rastko
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

Re: Android emulator

2016-02-27 Thread David Christensen
On 02/26/2016 09:03 PM, Peter Easthope wrote: 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

Re: Android emulator

2016-02-27 Thread Siard
Reco wrote: > Luckily alternatives are exist. More important is that it's free > software alternatives. > > First one is http://android-x86.org. It's somewhat outdated Android > build for x86-64, ready to be placed in any virtual machine of your > choice. The installation and running needed apps

Re: Android emulator

2016-02-27 Thread Reco
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:03:47 -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.  

Android emulator

2016-02-26 Thread Peter Easthope
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