[ale] How do I run Android in a Virtualbox VM

[Charles Shapiro]

Yeh, I'm also using a hardware development phone.  Fortunately, Android
phones are ubiquitous and cheap.

-- CHS


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Michael Potter <michael at potter.name>wrote:

> I build the app and xfer it to my phone as .apk.
>
> I use phonegap so the apps are pretty well debugged on iphone and browser
> before porting to android.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
>
>> So what DO you use?  I'd love to find something that will let me test
>> code at normal speed instead of slow motion.
>>
>> On 9/30/2013 19:27, Michael Potter wrote:
>> > I do android development and I NEVER use the emulator with the
>> development
>> > tools.
>> > It is just __way__ too slow.
>> >
>> > I have not tried this:
>> > http://www.bluestacks.com/
>> >
>> > Anyone have experience with that?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> It doesn't help.  My work machine is a dual Xeon E5-2667 (6 cores each,
>> >> 2.9GHz) with 64 GB of RAM and it still takes about 25 minutes to
>> compile
>> >> and start the emulator.  If the image is saved, it takes about 6
>> minutes
>> >> to start.  Run speed is also incredibly sluggish, taking about 10-15
>> >> seconds to register a click/tap on the virtual screen.
>> >>
>> >> On 9/30/2013 17:44, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
>> >>> This might be of interest if speed is an issue:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture
>> >>>
>> >>> As long as you don't mind an Android x86 implementation.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -          Jim
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Charles Shapiro <
>> >> hooterpincher at gmail.com<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>> The Android emulator works well but needs a lot of machine resources.
>> >>  It runs pretty slowly even on my Core I5 laptop.
>> >>> -- CHS
>> >>>
>> >>> Which would make it a strictly time accurate emulator, wouldn't  it
>> :^) ?
>> >>>
>> >>> -- David
>> >>>
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