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Have you guys heard of GennyMotion? It's way faster than the actual Android Emulator. My Professor for my Android Class in college recommended it to use for debugging for our assignments if we didn't have an Android Device. http://www.genymotion.com/
Wow, that page has a 2.5mb png as a background image on one of the elements.
I wonder if an Android device as a service would work. No, I don't mean loaning devices. I mean by the hour remote control of an Android device you can take over. Your end looks like the simulator, my end is a farm of Android devices which get a factory reset between every client connecting. You reserve it for as long as you want, or just do one-off testing. Edit: I suppose I should ask a more concrete question: woul…
"I wonder if an Android device as a service would work" Doubtful it would work any better than the custom VM solution that Genymotion (mentioned in the article) does (for this specific pain-point). I would still need to adb deploy my apk to the device (which is a process that really drags development even when doing it to local devices) and now its even worse because it is remote. Also this remoteness would add all s…
Have you guys heard of GennyMotion? It's way faster than the actual Android Emulator. My Professor for my Android Class in college recommended it to use for debugging for our assignments if we didn't have an Android Device. http://www.genymotion.com/
Google should buy Genymotion!
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> Google really can't implement an efficient iOS simulator for them, because there's no Android desktop operating system. The x86 Android build provided by GenyMotion (cited in the article) performs at the same speed as the x86 iPhone simulator. It has two major issues: - The UI is quirky (but usable) - It's expensive - GenyMotion devices have no Google Play by default. Want to test how your website runs in Chrome? S…
The x86 images provided by Google run just as fast as the Genymotion images, and have Google Play. Just FYI.
This is on a 2013 Haswell MBA with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD.
Google may as well throw the official emulator away.
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The x86 images provided by Google run just as fast as the Genymotion images, and have Google Play. Just FYI.
Thanks for the suggestion. I spent an hour setting these up today - despite supposedly using x64, HAXE etc they're unusably slow. I have no idea what's wrong. The UI tools run at unacceptable latency (they're Java based) so I can't debug easily. This is on a 2013 Haswell MBA with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. Google may as well throw the official emulator away.
Did you enable the "Use host GPU" option?