Running on a Macbook Pro

[JMB]

Hope I don't get banned for this question!

Does anyone have experience of running B4A on Win 7 under Bootcamp or Parallels running on a Macbook Pro? Can you still connect to a real device and run B4A with this setup?

Thanks

JMB

 

[salmander]

I have a mac mini running a slimmed down version of windows xp with vmware fusion and b4a runs perfectly fine . Many of the unnecessary services and programs are removed and the only things installed are b4a and it's dependancies.

Okay I have tested basic4android in virtualbox with windows 7 and windows xp installed. Its working fine, everything is okay. I tested the hello world app, it working fine. It also connects to the b4a_bridge fine. But when I am running windows in virtualbox, my mac get really hot. It shouldn't be getting that hot as b4a is just an IDE. It is running mac and windows at the same time, so obviously its using a lot of resources, thus making my mac unusually hot. Has anyone tried running b4a in wine? I have looked on the b4a running on linux post but its not perfect and not confirmed that it works fully. I am just thinking, its such an amazing IDE for developing android apps. Why it doesn't support mac OS yet? Can anyone please help me.
thanks.

 

[Lon]

Speed

This has been quite an eye-opener.

I've been doing side-by-side tests of the Macbook Pro running Windows 7 in Parallels, against my HP laptop which is roughly the same spec (2.4Ghz against 2.53Ghz), both running B4A v1.5 and both compiling and downloading the same code onto an emulated device.

The weird thing is that the Macbook thrashes the HP laptop!

I will post a video later if I can figure out how to upload one.

Any clues as to how to upload video, or should I put it on YouTube or something?

I've still not tested the B4A Bridge. Will try that this evening.

This is my first foray into the Mac world - I have only used PCs up until about 2 days ago!

JMB

I'm just about to try this as well. If you can't upload a video any chance you could just post some example build/compile times?

Update. Just wasted four hours of my life loading and testing the AVD in Bootcamp and in Parallels Desktop 9. Compile and install times were almost exactly the same. Starting a new AVD was exactly the same time as well. So I think I might just move over to Parallels for all my Windows work now.

 

[Ian Garton]

I use VMware Fusion on my Macbook Pro, running different versions/configurations of Windows.
All my vb4a work is done using this setup and it works brilliantly. Whilst Macbook's aren't cheap they sure are the best laptop I've ever had, and run windows better than anything.