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Does it also make Android development easier on Windows? i.e. can I build an Android app and open it via the subsystem, without having to run an emulator?
by laurent123456 5y ago
Does it also make Android development easier on Windows? i.e. can I build an Android app and open it via the subsystem, without having to run an emulator?
- jaywalk 5y agoYes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/#test-and-debug https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/#test-a...
- epage 5y agoThough this won't be as smooth, this is reminding me of the Maemo days. I had made adaptive abstractions for GTK / Maemo's patches and would develop my applications using PyGTK on the desktop. When I was ready for a release, I'd just scp the source over, do spot checking, and release my packages. That set the bar high enough for developer experience that I've never gotten into Android dev since Maemo died.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoWould it be any smoother? The official dev emulator runs Android in a VM, and this runs Android in a VM. So the points of differentiation are speed (does the SDK VM use hardware acceleration?) and integration (I'm guessing WSA doesn't play nice with attaching a debugger, and the SDK VM, AFAIK, just gives you a single "screen" in a window). So... maybe?