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Would be great to be able to run Android apps on other platforms, even if they don't replicate the native host UX or have access to all the platform APIs. The

by dharma1 11y ago

Would be great to be able to run Android apps on other platforms, even if they don't replicate the native host UX or have access to all the platform APIs. The only solutions I've seen are -Myriad Alien Dalvik (which isn't free) -Google's ARC Welder (which is very fast but only works inside Chrome/Chromium, doesn't work with all apps, only runs one app at a time and quite clunky to use) And emulators like Bluestacks or Genymotion, which are generally quite slow. Any other alternatives - especially for Linux?

Maarten88 11y ago
Not Linux, but fitting the context of the article: the Visual Studio Emulator for Android works very well, and is free. On Windows, it uses Hyper-V. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/msft-android-emulator-vs.aspx https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/msft-android-emu...
- EwanG 11y ago
  But requires that you have Windows Pro as MS has "helpfully" set Windows Home and Windows basic to not allow Hyper-V to run on a core i7 unless you have the Pro version. Which I sadly discovered when I bought a new high-end desktop and didn't realize (because very few specify) which version of Windows came with it. Of course I can load Ubuntu on the same machine and use Hypervisors all day long, but then we're back to Linux aren't we :-)
s73v3r 11y ago
As a developer, I wouldn't think this would be good. Mainly because I wouldn't have had tested the app on alternative platforms, and people would give bad reviews when it doesn't work, despite me never making the claim that it's compatible.
- dharma1 11y ago
  You can't download the apk from Google play directly to your Linux machine. You'd have to first install it on your android device and then manually copy to your Linux device - at that point I don't think many users would expect it to work 100% and probably wouldn't review it as such
  - s73v3r 11y ago
    I wouldn't be willing to trust that. Users can be pretty damn stupid. How many times did we see people who were running beta versions of Android and iOS, and give bad reviews to apps that weren't fully supporting it from day one?

by dharma1 11y ago

Maarten88 11y ago

Not Linux, but fitting the context of the article: the Visual Studio Emulator for Android works very well, and is free. On Windows, it uses Hyper-V. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/msft-android-emulator-vs.aspx https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/msft-android-emu...

EwanG 11y ago
But requires that you have Windows Pro as MS has "helpfully" set Windows Home and Windows basic to not allow Hyper-V to run on a core i7 unless you have the Pro version. Which I sadly discovered when I bought a new high-end desktop and didn't realize (because very few specify) which version of Windows came with it. Of course I can load Ubuntu on the same machine and use Hypervisors all day long, but then we're back to Linux aren't we :-)

s73v3r 11y ago

As a developer, I wouldn't think this would be good. Mainly because I wouldn't have had tested the app on alternative platforms, and people would give bad reviews when it doesn't work, despite me never making the claim that it's compatible.

dharma1 11y ago
You can't download the apk from Google play directly to your Linux machine. You'd have to first install it on your android device and then manually copy to your Linux device - at that point I don't think many users would expect it to work 100% and probably wouldn't review it as such
- s73v3r 11y ago
  I wouldn't be willing to trust that. Users can be pretty damn stupid. How many times did we see people who were running beta versions of Android and iOS, and give bad reviews to apps that weren't fully supporting it from day one?