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why are android emulators either nonexistent or utterly useless? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The generic answer is usually that someone hasn't felt the need to create and release one.

Open source basically means you get whatever someone else felt like creating, and they'll usually create it to suit themselves first and foremost (which may mean having a poor user interface, or certain limitations or performance quirks).

~~BlueStacks is cross platform, but I have never used it so no idea what the performance is gonna be like.~~

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The problem is Bluestacks has not been developed for Linux so some users are thinking what is the system they should adopt to emulate Android applications on Linux.

Fortunately an alternative exists if you need a system that can do that, now we will give you the keys to install something equivalent to BlueStacks that works correctly. Genymotion"

from their website

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My apologies, I saw:

BlueStacks is the famous Android emulator for PC that can now be downloaded for the Ubuntu Linux operating system but we also refer to other distributions like SUSE, Debian or Linux Mint.

And that reads clearly as being available.

But you are correct, and it's not. That entire blog looks like a Google translate trainwreck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and genymotion barely lets you install anything due to it using the wrong architecture

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The emulator with android studio might be useful, but I dunno how helpful it is for your use cases. Does require a bit of overkill to setup. I think qemu can also be used, but also probably not nice to setup. (and not sure about the architecture issue).

A few year ago there used to be a chrome extension for running Android apps, no idea if it works for Linux or even if it still works :/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Windows only with a macOS port that isn't even out yet.

[–] LiveLM 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And nevermind the fact it's sketchy as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not that sketchy. Gameloop is sketchier. I don't use any, I'd rather use scrcpy.