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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no it isn't, it isnt that at all, that is so far off the mark it's extraordinary. Android x86 is as it's name implies, a generic x86 iso. you can install it to physical hardware or a VMM equally the same, in fact, it's literally the exact opposite of highly customized.

it's explicitly as generic as it can be

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

Apparently you never had a look at it. Getting Android to run on x86 is by far not trivial these days. To make it work, Android-x86 has a lot of modifications over AOSP, including drivers, HAL and a lot more.

Just checkout their Git to see what they had to do to get it working.

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

I am intimately familiar, it is not highly customized for VMs, it is as generic as it can be. a lot of work was put into making it work on x86 as a whole, but not just VMs.

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

Ever seen a single instance in the real world where this is running outside of a VM?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes. Many. Blisslabs has partnerd with EIDU to work on tablets for low income countries. I personally have sold android boxes with Bliss. Ax86 has a large number of sponsors that are/were casinos. There are people working on using it in cars. 2-In-1s. ETC.

VMs are the minority use case...