[ale] How do I run Android in a Virtualbox VM

[Michael Potter]

I build the app and xfer it to my phone as .apk.

I use phonegap so the apps are pretty well debugged on iphone and browser
before porting to android.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> So what DO you use?  I'd love to find something that will let me test
> code at normal speed instead of slow motion.
>
> On 9/30/2013 19:27, Michael Potter wrote:
> > I do android development and I NEVER use the emulator with the
> development
> > tools.
> > It is just __way__ too slow.
> >
> > I have not tried this:
> > http://www.bluestacks.com/
> >
> > Anyone have experience with that?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> It doesn't help.  My work machine is a dual Xeon E5-2667 (6 cores each,
> >> 2.9GHz) with 64 GB of RAM and it still takes about 25 minutes to compile
> >> and start the emulator.  If the image is saved, it takes about 6 minutes
> >> to start.  Run speed is also incredibly sluggish, taking about 10-15
> >> seconds to register a click/tap on the virtual screen.
> >>
> >> On 9/30/2013 17:44, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
> >>> This might be of interest if speed is an issue:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture
> >>>
> >>> As long as you don't mind an Android x86 implementation.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -          Jim
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Charles Shapiro <
> >> hooterpincher at gmail.com<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>> The Android emulator works well but needs a lot of machine resources.
> >>  It runs pretty slowly even on my Core I5 laptop.
> >>> -- CHS
> >>>
> >>> Which would make it a strictly time accurate emulator, wouldn't  it
> :^) ?
> >>>
> >>> -- David
> >>>
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