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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by mwcampbell on Monday June 16, 2014 @07:59PM (#7902165)
What platform(s) would the simulator support? Just GNU/Linux? Even that is quite different from actual Android in some ways, e.g. glibc instead of bionic. It's easy by comparison for Apple to provide a simulator, because the simulator only has to run on Mac OS X, which basically shares everything below the UI toolkit with iOS.
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Re:Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator by lambda on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:21PM (#7902393)
You're not forced to use glibc on GNU/Linux. You could link against bionic if you want, assuming it runs in a stock kernel.
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