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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] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perhaps because scrcpy exists? It's very easy to mirror an Android device on the PC with it and control it with mouse and keyboard, and everybody has an Android device around. So why bother emulating one.

The ones with the most need to emulate are app developers and Android Studio does have an emulator included iirc.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

mirroring is hardly the same as emulating tho is it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah... I feel the intent here isn't to use the same Android installation on a bigger screen - it's about taking back control and setting up Android environments on your own terms without unnecessary hardware. It's a totally different use case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

While I appreciate the difference between mirroring and emulation, @[email protected] might have a point in so far as scrcpy and other options that aren't emulation, may still be part of the reason why no one is making polished emulation options. If a dev can get by with a bunch of physical devices connected and controllev via adb, scrcpy and the like, or a passable emulator in Android Studio, then there's less reason for them to build or contribute to an emulator for their needs, and consequently op (and the rest of us) don't get a shiny open-source emulator.