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It was moslly useful back when there weren't many Android devices around. OTOH I do think that at least now there is not really much of a point in running the ARM emulator any more as it is too slow for most serious development. Android runs the code in an *emulator* which is actually emulating an ARM CPU which is a lot harder to do. So your code is compiled for x86 and runs as a native program. It's also worth noting that when you debug iOS code on OSX it's running in a *simulator* not an emulator. I don't think there has ever been the need to do much translation to emulate iOS on a mac computer. Or perhaps Steve Jobs was right when he claimed Apple was ahead of everyone else by 5 years when it came to the iPhone (and perhaps even when it comes to the iPad).Īctually, no, the thing is that iOS only has to run things on macs, that also run on Objective C. I guess the rumors are true that the Android development team is shockingly small. Only took them 3 years to add hardware acceleration. (Unless you go all in on the NDK, but you should be able to do that "just fine" in Visual Studio.
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I also fail to understand why you would want to develop for Android without installing Java as it is a requirement for the development process. Writing Java code is IME a lot smoother in Eclipse than in Visual Studio.
And the ARM compiler leaves a lot to be desired (eg Neon optimisations). But if you try to go outside of that you're on your own. (And I've used both professionally for many years.) The thing to remember with VS is that it's typically very good when you are targeting Windows x86 or Windows Phone. I can buy that the interface builder in Eclipse isn't as good as the alternatives in XCode and Visual Studio.īut I do think that debugging in Eclipse is pretty close to the experience in Visual Studio. I wonder how BlueStacks might be taking this potential.
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I suspect you'll start seeing some torrent downloads of a pre-configured and stripped down (no full SDK) Android emulator for the masses shortly.Īlso, this gives further incentive and tools for developers to write Android applications in an x86 distributable fashion. Though I will comment, the Androidx86 project boots in about 15 seconds on a lowly Atom powered HP Slate 500, so I can only imagine the speed it runs at on something modern like a Samsung 7 Series, given appropriate drivers.
#Android emulator mac hardware acceleration driver#
Then one has access to a larger current library of touch optimized programs without reboot and better, the driver woes of Android x86. It would be great to possess an actual full implementation of Android which runs nicely on top of Windows 7/8. It works for Windows Phone because that's the same as Silverlight on Windows.Īnyone else notice the time coincidence that x86 tablets which can run this emulator are moving out from under the corporate and niche geek umbrella to mainstream consumer products? It works for iOS because it's the SAME development tools as for MacOS. People do not want to abandon their preferred development tools just to develop for a secondary platform. I'm not sure you can integrate the SDK with XCode, but that would be good too. if Google really wants more people developing for Android, make up a Visual Studio plug in and make it work with Visual Studio Express if you want free (although, I think that's not possible - I don't think VSE allows add-ons). If it could just run without installing Java, I'd be happier right there. Then there's the whole 'Java infestation' problem. Even doing the simple things - like compiling and debugging an app seems to turn into a wrestling match with Eclipse. Asking someone who's used to Visual Studio or XCode to switch to Eclipse is like asking them to dip their hand in scalding hot water everytime they start an Android project.
And I consider XCode clunky compared to Visual Studio. so yes.Įrr, have you ever compared using XCode to Eclipse? XCode is a quite a bit more powerful and sophisticated. Are there any tools that are comparable to XCode's Interface Builder?Įclipse has always been able to do Interface Builder equivalent work for Android.