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why are android emulators either nonexistent or utterly useless? (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator

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[–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

and genymotion barely lets you install anything due to it using the wrong architecture

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The emulator with android studio might be useful, but I dunno how helpful it is for your use cases. Does require a bit of overkill to setup. I think qemu can also be used, but also probably not nice to setup. (and not sure about the architecture issue).

    A few year ago there used to be a chrome extension for running Android apps, no idea if it works for Linux or even if it still works :/

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