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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by Birdy_0 on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:39PM (#7901022)
Have you guys heard of GennyMotion? It's way faster than the actual Android Emulator. My Professor for my Android Class in college recommended it to use for debugging for our assignments if we didn't have an Android Device.

http://www.genymotion.com/

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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by christop on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:13PM (#7901211)
Genymotion is mentioned in the article, along with the reasons why it's not ideal (aside from the fact that it's not a first-party solution, and that you can't get a version with the Google SDKs running).
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by nailer on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:48AM (#7904362)
> You can't get a version with the Google SDKs running

Technically you can, it's just hard to do and should be there by default (I very much agree in spirit).

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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by recursive on Monday June 16, 2014 @05:01PM (#7901452)
Wow, that page has a 2.5mb png as a background image on one of the elements.
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by smrtinsert on Monday June 16, 2014 @07:16PM (#7902023)
wow, how many jqueries is that?
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by recursive on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:03PM (#7902346)
80, counting gzipped jquery.
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by feld on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:13PM (#7908042)
web 4.0
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by yesimahuman on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:39PM (#7901363)
It's mentioned in the article, but the downsides are almost all due to the licensing and pricing model. Doesn't really make it a bad solution from a technical standpoint (and for others to do something similar).

To me Genymotion is what Android "should" have, and it's already here.

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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by mikehc on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:02PM (#7901154)
Genymotion is the way to go. Google's emulator plain sucks.
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by fuddle on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:39PM (#7901368)
Google should buy Genymotion!
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by junk3d on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @08:27AM (#7909678)
couldn't agree more
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