Running Emulator on a Netbook

[splatt]

Has anyone managed to get the emulator running on a netbook.

I have an Acer Aspire with 2Gb RAM. The emulator launches, but seems to freeze at the stage where the animated Android logo is displayed.

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Erel]

Most netbooks are too slow to work with the Android emulator. It is a heavy application.
Even if it will work it will be painfully slow.

 

[Cableguy]

I have a Toshiba NB100 netbook, will is similar in almost everything to the aspire...Aton n260, wifi, bluethooth, 160gb HD, and 2Gb Ram...
All works good...Yes the emulator is slow to launch, taking almos a full ten minutes, that's why I keep my device conected so I can debug more quickly...
But it DOES WORK...

 

[splatt]

Thanks Cableguy.

Once my phone arrives, I'll give it a go with the netbook.

 

[staticmike]

Netbook and Emulator issues - Newbie

Just started using B4A and am really impressed.
The problem I have is that I prefer to work on my netbook because of size etc but the Emulator is painfully slow as I have found from other posts !!

I have tried the virtualbox solution but again things aren't looking good (presume RAM limitation of Netbook). My main Dell laptop runs it like lightning but is a bit large to chuck in my rucksack and carry around.

The solution I am thinking is to buy a cheap Android Tablet at about £80 from Amazon and connect this to my netbook. Am I right in saying that this is possible and all I will need to do is install B4A app onto the tablet ?


Will the designer and everything work just like when you use the emulator ?

Thanks

Mike (UK)

 

[agraham]

Not all cheap tablets will work with adb over USB, my Eken M001 chinese 1.6 tablet doesn't. When connected it does appear to the PC as a storage device so you can transfer files, but after enabling USB debugging on it Windows doesn't ask for the adb drivers as it seems to lack the necessary USB devices. It does work wirelessly with adb over the network and with B4ABridge. However as you seem to want a portable solution you probably can't rely on this.

I'd ask here, or Google, before buying any device to check that other people have used it successfully for development over a USB connection.

 

[raytronixsystems]

I have several networked PC's here. Is it possible to run the AVD on another separate PC on my network and use it for the screen designer and debugging?

 

[Brad]

I have several networked PC's here. Is it possible to run the AVD on another separate PC on my network and use it for the screen designer and debugging?

I have a dual monitor system and use my second monitor for screen design. I don't believe you are able to use a separate PC for this.

 

[Brad]

I wonder if you could install the bridge on the emulator? That would allow you use a different PC for screen design.

 

[Kevin]

I wonder if you could install the bridge on the emulator? That would allow you use a different PC for screen design.

Hmmm. Got me wondering now.

I wonder what IP address the bridge would report as being assigned to the device (emulator)? I ask because the emulators seem to run in a private network that can communicate with the PC it is running on.

At least that's how it seems to me because the IP address assigned to the "device" in the emulator is not the same as the PC (not even close).

 

[agraham]

the emulators seem to run in a private network that can communicate with the PC it is running on.

I believe that is the case. The networking details are here Using the Android Emulator | Android Developers. It looks like it might be possible to communicate with B4ABridge in an emulator on a different networked machine using emulator console redirection.

 

[iliberis]

I think that Android-X86 will run smoothly on that Acer.