Increasingly more and more services I prefer to access online keep asking me to download and use some app to be able to enjoy the goodness of their offering in the future. Invariably these are Android apps they think their customers will want to use. I don't have an android phone, but have QEMU installed. I was wondering if I can run some/any of these apps as VM guests within QEMU, on my amd64 Gentoo.
I had a look at this wiki page, but I'm not sure if all this is required just to run some arm binary, when I don't need/want to compile software on ARM: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/General/ Compiling_with_qemu_user_chroot I assume if I follow the instructions on the page I should be able to install some Android image as a guest, then install the requisite app in the guest and run it? Or is it more complicated than this and it won't run unless I install it in a real smart phone, I'm connected to a cell tower at the time and give them my phone number too? My understanding of emulating an altogether different CPU arch in QEMU is non- existent, I've always run x86 guest OS'/apps on x86 gentoo hosts. Do you have any relevant experience you could share? -- Regards, Mick
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