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I wonder if its possible to wrap an Android emulator in the Metro shell. Would make buying an Android tablet pretty pointless.

• rhplus 15y ago
  That's what BlueStacks claims it will deliver: http://bluestacks.com/ces/ http://bluestacks.com/ces/
• lars 15y ago
  It probably is, but trust me, you wouldn't want to use it. Because it does hardware level emulation, the Android emulator is unbelievably slow. Way too slow for normal use. Edited to add: There have been efforts to build android simulators, i.e. compile android for x86 and don't do hardware level emulation. This is how iPhone and WP7 testing is done already, and would run perfectly fast enough.
  • gnaffle 15y ago
    Maybe some kind of virtualization would work for ARM-based Win8 tablets?
  • commandar 15y ago
    > i.e. compile android for x86 and don't do hardware level emulation. Keep in mind that Windows 8 will run on ARM.