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I think that Android-x86 has an ARM emulator. Doesn't Dalvik/ART compile Java Bytecode down to a native layer anyway, so this wouldn't matter?

• bitwize 3y ago
  It does matter because lots of Android apps (esp. games) have native-code bits in them that are linked in with JNI.
  • anthk 3y ago
    X86 Android has a Rosetta like emulator allowing you tu run ARM games on Intel perfectly. WIth GLTools you just emulate a virtual Nvidia Tegra 2/3 GPU per app and that will do the trick.
  • iggldiggl 3y ago
    It's not just games – anything multimedia (video, audio, pictures, even my e-book reader) is another likely candidate for including native libraries, and some other apps, too.
    • WorldMaker 3y ago
      Plus Android for x86 has the same problem that it doesn't have officially supported versions of the Google Play APIs which lead to Microsoft relying on the Amazon Store and Amazon's strange fork of Google Play APIs to get any number of apps to run (which was a tiny subset of what Android users consider "Android apps").