Android Emulator Development

[nirvana]

We are new to android and trying to develop a emulator for the end users…we're not trying to make it a device simulator with the os img installed, as is not so user-friendly. All I wanna do is to load and parse the app installation file and simulate the look & feel of it, and help our users to make their decisions if they wanna install it or not.

Can I have any information about how to start up to develop an emulator. We were trying to search for some resources online but couldn’t find any for emulator development Online stuff is all related to application development…Please suggest us some tutorials which would help us.

[Chris Stratton]

On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:16:59 AM UTC-4, nirvana wrote:

We are new to android and trying to develop a emulator for the end users…we're not trying to make it a device simulator with the os img installed, as is not so user-friendly. All I wanna do is to load and parse the app installation file and simulate the look & feel of it, and help our users to make their decisions if they wanna install it or not.

Can I have any information about how to start up to develop an emulator. We were trying to search for some resources online but couldn’t find any for emulator development Online stuff is all related to application development…

Sure - "all" you need to do is read the entirety of the api documentation at devloper.android.com, and then re-implement everything yourself.  On top of that, you will need to come up with a way to execute the arm machine code in jni libraries, and somehow hook it into your emulation of the rest.

> Please suggest us some tutorials which would help us.
 

When you are finished with the project, you will be in a position to write them.

[Tez]

God! why don't you read the documentation?
an emulator is already provided.

-Earlence

[nirvana]

Hi, Earlence,
Yeap, I konw, but note what we're trying to developing is for the
end users. The emulator came with the sdk is not so user-friendly.

On 8月24日, 上午11时42分, Tez <earlencefe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> God! why don't you read the documentation?
> an emulator is already provided.
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> -Earlence
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> On Aug 24, 9:23 am, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:16:59 AM UTC-4, nirvana wrote:
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> > > We are new to android and trying to develop a emulator for the end

> > > users...we're not trying to make it a device simulator with the os img

> > > installed, as is not so user-friendly. All I wanna do is to load and parse
> > > the app installation file and simulate the look & feel of it, and help our
> > > users to make their decisions if they wanna install it or not.
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> > > Can I have any information about how to start up to develop an emulator. We
> > > were trying to search for some resources online but couldn't find any for

> > > emulator development Online stuff is all related to application development...

[Karthik]

If you just want to demo your app to end users, do it in flash.

If you want to execute the apk, you'd better off with the emulator that comes with the SDK.

Best regards,

Karthik

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[nirvana]

OMG, That means unbeleivable tons of works right there.

[nirvana]

Hi, Karthik,
Maybe you are right, the best choice might be to use the emulator
coming with the sdk. As a matter of fact, the app we're trying to
develop is not for demo show, but we are trying to building an
app(especially game) store which supports buying(or installing) before
trying, which requires high user-freindliness. The emulator coming
with the sdk is uncredible slow and no so easy to install an apk file
directly into it. It means using the emulator coming with the sdk
would be really a bad choice but seems the only choice here.
Any way, thanks for you guys' help.
Br,
David

[Karthik]

I guess the Amazon's app store allows you to try app online before purchasing, not sure about the technology behind.

2011/8/26 nirvana <liqu...@gmail.com>