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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Android emulator so slow? by saidulislam on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:36AM (#2301219)
do what same for Android? go native? haven't tried honeycomb but if it's that slow I say post it as an issue to android dev
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Android emulator so slow? by georgemcbay on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:55AM (#2301306)
Go native for the dev "emulator" is what I meant, just like Apple does for the iOS SDK.

All of the tools the Android SDK uses to build APKs (even NDK ones) support x86 as a target and Android itself will run on x86. There are certainly some apps that require ARM specific (eg. NEON) instruction sets but those are in the vast minority compared to the whole of the Android App ecosystem and Honeycomb running on an emulated ARM isn't really a solution for even those folks, the emulator is basically useless for everyone now.

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