

Most will at least compile for ARM but in the interest of cutting down on the size of the APK a lot skip x86 and others (MIPS etc).

When developers prepare an app for release they can choose what architecture(s) to compile their native library binaries for.

But the fact is a lot of apps also have native libraries built into them (compiled using the NDK and written usually in C or C++). The majority of apps will function fine as well, at least if they're 100% written in Java. Yes, that's right - you can run native Android on your PC or Mac! No more horrendously slow Android Emulator.Īndroid x86 runs super fast on most bits of Intel hardware. For those of you who don't know it's a project to get Android running on various Intel x86 architecture based platforms based of the vanilla Android Open Source Project from Google. These past few months I've being playing with a customized flavour of Android x86 and virtualization (I'm loving OpenStack!).
#ANDROID EMULATOR ON MAC CRASHING DEC 2016 HOW TO#
It's been a busy one at that! Feel free to skip to the bottom if you just want the instructions on how to get libhoudini running on Android x86.
