<div dir="ltr"><div>Yeh, I'm also using a hardware development phone. Fortunately, Android phones are ubiquitous and cheap.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Michael Potter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@potter.name" target="_blank">michael@potter.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I build the app and xfer it to my phone as .apk.<div><br></div><div>I use phonegap so the apps are pretty well debugged on iphone and browser before porting to android.</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So what DO you use? I'd love to find something that will let me test<br>
code at normal speed instead of slow motion.<br>
<div><div><br>
On 9/30/2013 19:27, Michael Potter wrote:<br>
> I do android development and I NEVER use the emulator with the development<br>
> tools.<br>
> It is just __way__ too slow.<br>
><br>
> I have not tried this:<br>
> <a href="http://www.bluestacks.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bluestacks.com/</a><br>
><br>
> Anyone have experience with that?<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> It doesn't help. My work machine is a dual Xeon E5-2667 (6 cores each,<br>
>> 2.9GHz) with 64 GB of RAM and it still takes about 25 minutes to compile<br>
>> and start the emulator. If the image is saved, it takes about 6 minutes<br>
>> to start. Run speed is also incredibly sluggish, taking about 10-15<br>
>> seconds to register a click/tap on the virtual screen.<br>
>><br>
>> On 9/30/2013 17:44, Barlow, Jim D wrote:<br>
>>> This might be of interest if speed is an issue:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>> <a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture" target="_blank">http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> As long as you don't mind an Android x86 implementation.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> - Jim<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Charles Shapiro <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>>> The Android emulator works well but needs a lot of machine resources.<br>
>> It runs pretty slowly even on my Core I5 laptop.<br>
>>> -- CHS<br>
>>><br>
>>> Which would make it a strictly time accurate emulator, wouldn't it :^) ?<br>
>>><br>
>>> -- David<br>
>>><br>
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