Android Question ARM Development Machines

[JeffT]

Apologies if this has been asked.. its been a couple of years since I last tried to make an Android app, and I want to have another try.
My current development machine is a Mac M2, running Windows ARM in a VM

Do I have any chance of using B4A / B4X inside this Windows ARM environment?
Any 'gotchas' I should know about?

 

[peacemaker]

It's much more interesting to read about your real test results...

 

[jahswant]

It's much more interesting to read about your real test results...

B4A is free for download.

 

[JeffT]

"B4A is free for download."

Obviously.
But I am tired of downloading an configuring gigabytes of stuff and then finding they don't work, or I don't like them, or they have ridiculous licence restrictions.

All I'm asking is 'has anyone else already done this'?
If you haven't, fine.
Maybe I'll get a reply from someone who has.

 

[Alexander Stolte]

All I'm asking is 'has anyone else already done this'?

[B4X] MacBook Pro M1 M2 ARM

Hi everyone, im planning to buy a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon processor. I know that is possibile to run Windows 11 through Parallels. The question is: Can I continue to use Anywhere Softwares (B4A, B4i, B4J) with it? or there are some cases in which there will be limitations or problems...

www.b4x.com

 

[aeric]

configuring gigabytes of stuff

This is not true. B4A file size is less than 20MB.
Of course you need to download the SDK command line tools (115MB) plus the required resources (284MB). You also need to download jdk 14 (261MB). Adding up all the file size does not exceed 700MB.
Not much need to be configure, just the jdk and additional library path.

Android Studio installer itself already 1.1GB, not including other additional download.

Visual Studio IDE installer is 31MB but required around 20GB of total disk space for developing Android app using C# and .NET MAUI.