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why are android emulators either nonexistent or utterly useless? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VM = x86 = android-x86 which OP already mentioned

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah but android emulators = VM = x86 = android-x86

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a bit more to an emulator than simply running Android on x86 hardware.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not really no. I mean, sure you could add a fancy gui on top of it. but 90% of android emulators are some kind of android x86 + libhoudini/ndk + vmm. some modify surfaceflinger so that each application will render to it's own window, but usually it's just disabling launcher, and sending some kind of command to open the app from a gui (IE. sending adb launch commands)

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