Hello to the Android SDK team at Google, I don't know if anyone in the Android SDK team is listening, but I have a request. I know you guys are working on the emulator's speed in the Honeycomb SDK. I was wondering if it is possible to release a VirtualBox version of the Honeycomb emulator to run on MacOS X. The Qemu emulator of Honeycomb is simply not usable on a decent development machine. Decent meaning; dual core, 2.8GHz, 4Gig RAM. This should be sufficient to develop an application for a desktop, so it should be sufficient to develop for a tablet. Yet, it is unusable to test my application on the latest SDK's emulator.
I've built the AOSP emulator for VirtualBox, and it is able to bootup. But it lacks mouse and Ethernet support, so it is not usable as a testing tool. The Honeycomb emulator should have support for a mouse already, and Ethernet support shouldn't be too difficult to add. Thus, there shouldn't be any reason to prevent a VirtualBox version of the Honeycomb emulator. So, Android SDK team, please consider releasing something else to hold us over until a usable Qemu solution is ready. I think it is very insidious to force Android app developers to use Qemu in its current state. So I beg you. Give us something for the time being, please. --jc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
