On 2012-05-30 04:19, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) wrote: >>> Is goldfish still a relevant Android dev platform? In other words - >>> would goldfish be useful to Android developers or just cool for QEMU >>> hackers and "old-school" Android enthusiasts? >> >> It's still the base of the emulator you get with current SDKs. >> >> FWIW, latest AOSP (today's git checkout) built for the vbox_x86-eng >> target runs nicely in QEMU/KVM (using the intermediate disk image >> "android_disk.img"). So, adding device models to improve this >> environment would likely be more helpful to provide a first alternative >> to the Android emulator. And it's likely a lower hanging fruit. And a >> much sweeter one (KVM makes it pretty fast :) ). > > Running it in QEMU/KVM? If we want to run a ARM image, we can't use KVM, > right?
Well, not yet (but surely one day). But, unless you write platform-dependent apps, the x86 environment serves well for testing. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
