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I want the opposite. I'd love to be able to run android apps on standard Linux without using an emulator. I can't seem to find anything like this, not even an
by tacoman 14y ago
I want the opposite. I'd love to be able to run android apps on standard Linux without using an emulator. I can't seem to find anything like this, not even an abandoned school project. It must be more complicated than I realize.
- Elv13 14y agoGoogle provide such emulator. Ubuntu could at some point run Android apps, but they gave up before Android 1.6 was released. The problem with recent Android is that most apps require the full system with all the services / contentproviders. You can download the playstore APK or individuals APK if you wish. The second option is to run the x86 version of Android in a VM or chroot + VNC (linux only). Apps using the NDK wont run, but you will get native-ish speed for the apps that does run. As for an "integration mode" where many apps can run in parallel with their own WM client, I don't think there is something for that yet.
- kanzure 14y agoI forget the name, but there is at least one project doing that. In the mean time, here's an abandoned project doing something similar (not the one that works): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/AndroidExecutionEnvironment https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/AndroidExecutionEnvironment
- michaelmior 14y agoSomething like this exists for Windows/Mac. Not sure about Linux. http://www.bluestacks.com/ http://www.bluestacks.com/