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Java might've had a lot of FOSS love put into, but the Android toolset... Well, let's just say that I would be a very, very happy man if the Android emulator c

• davedx 15y ago
  Use an actual device. You don't develop for Xbox 360's or PS3's in an emulator, why would you for mobiles?
  • rbritton 15y ago
    Because it's much, much easier and quicker to run most builds in the simulator, especially when you're not dealing with something that has a tricky performance point to balance. At least with the iOS simulator, it makes debugging low memory warnings and secondary screens much easier as well.
  • daeken 15y ago
    Depends on what you're developing. Frequently you develop in parallel for the desktop and your console of choice, when you're doing non-performance-intensive stuff. This is especially true of XNA and the like, where your code is identical.
    • davedx 15y ago
      What I mean is you don't compile and run it on your PC, then run it in a PS3 emulator. You run it on a PS3 dev machine.
  • linc01n 15y ago
    iPhone, Xbox, PS3 are platforms do not have much hardware difference device. But Android supported tons of devices, without a nice emulator sometime you dun know is it your phone(if you test on real device) causing problems or your code.
    • davedx 15y ago
      I don't know what you mean. I developed a 3D game for Android and never had a problem with my "phone causing problems", or any other phones really besides extremely rare crashes from my crash reporter once it was released.