Android Issue 887: Unable to launch emulator on MacOSX 10.5. | Hacker News Reader

Android Issue 887: Unable to launch emulator on MacOSX 10.5.

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The emulator sucks on all platforms, not just mac. I suspect that at google, most android app development happens on real hardware and the emulator there to tick a box.

I spent about five minutes with it before concluding that productivity was going to require some real hardware. The emulator really only gets fired up when reproducing bugs on old os versions.

The emulator project is probably under-resourced and as such they don't care about minor usability issues with known workarounds. I'm not seeing this as being some kind of jihad against mac users.

that title is sensationalistic. They declined one bug that only occurs on os x, under specific situations.

Hmm.. I dunno. It seems pretty preposterous to decline a bug with no comment whatsoever and then to have 33 more people confirm the bug after it being declined. This thing is 3 years old now.

If "doesn't give a fuck" doesn't describe google's stance on this, how would you describe it?

"Simple workaround exists" maybe? I'm not saying this bug isn't a problem (especially for developers new to Android), just trying to guess what they might have been thinking when they declined it. People still reporting the problem 3 years later should be a pretty good indicator that this bug needs to be fixed though.

I was under the impression that a lot of Google desktops are Macs, so I doubt that they don't care about Macs. As others have explained it's more like they "don't give a fuck about the emulator".

It's 10.5. Two major versions back. I can fully understand when Google doesn't want to support it.

Nah, I still have to disconnect my external speaker in 10.7.1.

comment from the end of the bug:

"To all the apple fanboys: the emulator code is open source. Go ahead and fix it yourselves. Apple doesn't provide a multi platform SDK. If I want to develop an app for iPhone I must own an Apple PC. Now, that's messed up!."

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