[ale] Android 4 vm running BLAZING fast

[vernard at gmail.com (Vernard Martin)]

On 10/28/2013 11:16 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I had to share this with you.  As I mentioned in some prior threads, 
> I've been trying to get an Android tablet emulator running to do some 
> testing and docs.  I was originally trying to use the emulator from 
> the Android sdk, within a Mint VM.  I got this running, but it was DOG 
> slow, taking 10 minutes to boot and 5 seconds to respond to a mouse 
> click.  It also didn't have google apps like the play store.
>
> It was unusable!
>
> I've now got an alternate solution going from:
>
> http://www.genymotion.com/
>
> and I LOVE it.  It's running as a pure VM within Virtualbox.  It 
> doesn't require Java or Eclipse, although the docs say it can work 
> with the Android Development Kit.
>
> Now, get this, my tablet simulator is running FASTER than my REAL 
> Android tablet.  I'm not kidding.  It boots in 20 seconds and responds 
> to mouse clicks in 1/2 sec.
>
> If you have an interest in simulating Android tablets or phones, you 
> need to check this out.
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to give this one a shot. I recently 
acquired an Android tablet myself and I might get back into writing apps 
for it. I had given it up after it occurred to me that I was going 
through way too much effort to write apps for my phone :)

Vernard