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Android in Cloud – An Open Source Android cloud emulator

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I've found for better "real-world" testing, once my app is passing the basic emulators, the Firebase real-device test cloud is excellent for reliable data on what will happen on User XYZ's actual device.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/test-lab/

Really excited by this. Bookmarked for a more detailed look later.

Small tip - You might want to review your spell checker settings, which seems to have passed words like: "developper".

Thank you for the kind words (spell check is ok now :)

This looks interesting. Are there instructions for setting up a local instance? This link looked promising, but yields a 404:

https://github.com/AiC-Project/documentation/blob/master/doc...

Sure, you'll find the documentation here : https://aic-project.github.io/documentation/sub/local-aic/

May I ask where you got the broken link from ?

Follow the "documentation" link at the bottom of this page:

https://github.com/AiC-Project/documentation/blob/master/doc...

This kinda is the unbuilt documentation, so kinda normal relative links get broken... Please see the documentation here : https://aic-project.github.io/documentation/

To register it seems one must be a member of an organisation like a University.

You can go for "AW - Alter Way" organization and I will let you through

I submitted one with AW - with email ending in .wa.us.

Thanks!

Magic! Thanks.

Is it possible / a good idea to emulate Android on Ubuntu?

It's a standard part of the developer tools.

did you here about Anbox? using Anbox, you can run Android apps on linux desktop natively.

Anbox sure is an interesting project, although it doesn't provide multi-VM testing automation (afaik)

You can launch the VMs from the projet on Linux, or access VMs from any modern browser / system through the SAAS version.

Possible sure, it was possible in 2013 itself. I've run android both on Ubuntu in AWS and locally inside Virtualbox (or maybe VMWare). And Eclipse (then) and Android Studio come with a variety of emulators. In all cases, you better have a somewhat beefy dev machine. Macs are more than enough, my wife's cheap Thinkpad can't handle both Studio and emulator.

May I ask which thinkpad you're referring to?

T420, sorry for the delayed response, I had to get home to check.

Not a problem at all, thanks for getting back to me.

!! To everyone : we are getting a lot of requests for testing, so keep on submitting as we are adding new servers to the test pool. Thank you !!

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