A better Android emulator

This looks extremely useful assuming it works. Although I never use the emulator while building Android because it basically does not work on most machines and does not give you any real indication how your code will run on an actual device.

Very curious how they pulled this off.

Re: A better Android emulator

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Post by duiker101 » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 4:23 PM UTC

I keep getting the page with the Android-fail-whale image. No idea what is going on... didn't last long this website. Can someone explain how does this work?

Re: A better Android emulator

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Post by badhairday » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 4:24 PM UTC

Is there any difference between this and having a real device with the same OS version and screen size?

Re: A better Android emulator

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

lallouz wrote: post #5

This looks extremely useful assuming it works. Although I never use the emulator while building Android because it basically does not work on most machines and does not give you any real indication how your code will run on an actual device. Very curious how they pulled this off.

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Re: A better Android emulator

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Post by 100k » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

The developers of this are friends of mine so I got to play around with it a little last month.

Though I'm not an Android developer, I can see how useful it would be for testing mobile web sites. You can launch an emulator in many different resolutions and pixel densities to check out your web site/app.

You can also see a video of the product in action at the last MinneDemo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TXiDPlc3Fg

Re: A better Android emulator

#10

Post by moystard » Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

duiker101 wrote: post #6

I keep getting the page with the Android-fail-whale image. No idea what is going on... didn't last long this website. Can someone explain how does this work?

Same here, and it takes quite a long time to land on that page. I guess the website times out..