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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by sorenjan on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:06PM (#31137981)
One problem with relying on emulation is that Google has moved a lot of functionality from the open source Android layer to Google Play Services, and they obviously wont publish that on someone else's platform.

https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by nextos on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:22PM (#31138126)
Yes, this is a problem.

But frankly, many users only want messaging, maps, banking and a few other things.

WebAssembly could solve that.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by marcosdumay on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:00PM (#31138503)
You can install those from the Play Store, can't you? If you are going yo emulate Android, it's best to go all in and install the Google services into the emulator too. (Of course, the distributor can't just install it, but he can make the device ready for installing it, requiring only some confirmation.)
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