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I just started using Android Studio (AS). I work on a somewhat antiquated machine and so do not have any hardware accelerator on the motherboard. As a result, I use the Nexus_4_API_22 emulator that's available in AS.
I do not know who designed the emulator (if designed at all). It is filled with craplets! It displays a close-to-real-life display of an Android phone, with all of the bells and whistles - everything you'd expect to see on a smartphone device - but nothing I need for the simulation of my app.
All I need is something like the Microsoft device emulator that I used during the development of software for the MC65/75 Motorola mobile computer. It was sleek. It was targeted at the developer. No bells. No whistles. No craplets! And relatively fast loading.
Does anyone know of an emulator for the Android that is something like the Microsoft device emulator?
Oh, and it has to be free.
Thanks
Gus Gustafson
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The best test is a direct test on a device. You can very easily debug directly on the device using USB or even on a network with ADB.
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html[^]
Edit: Once you start the adb, Android studio will automatically recognize the connected device and on start/debug it will show the connected device in the list where you can run/debug your app.
It doesn't get any easier.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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That might be true if I had an Android phone. I have a Windows phone. Thanks anyway.
Gus Gustafson
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Why not the Microsoft emulator? It's now available standalone[^], so you don't need VS.
TTFN - Kent
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Tried the install. Failed with the message: Installer encountered an error: 0x80004002 No such interface supported.
Thoughts?
Gus Gustafson
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Yo no se. Were you running the installer as Admin, or just normally? Weven, or some other release?
TTFN - Kent
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I've been looking for the same thing myself, an emulator that actually provides full GSM capability... Do you know if such a fully-functional smartphone emulator actually even exists? Android, Windows, iOS, whatever - just looking for the baseband connectivity....
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Sounds interesting. Where do I get the Arc Welder app?
Gus Gustafson
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Thanks.
Guess I'm used to pages with "Download" on them so I missed "Add to Chrome".
We'll see how it works when the download completes.
Again, thanks
Gus Gustafson
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Alt title: Virus named "Windows 10" used p2p to infects 14 million computers in 24 hours
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Sorry, that was me. Had to (re)install it a few times.. 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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A "success", no doubt. The new Microsoft will be soon hailing victory for the rollout, as soon as SP1 is delivered to all machines that lost all connectivity.
Personally, I stopped at seven. Things have shifted from having a new hype each year to being boring and predictable.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I stopped at 7 also. I don't see any reason to install that crap on my PC's and phurk things up.
Windows 7 works, my clients use Windows 7 - it's not broken...
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Neither was the horse...
I currently run 7 (because 8 is Fisher Price Windows) - but I'll upgrade to 10 probably next week. Unless the internet starts screaming "it made my computer fall over!" and all I hear at the moment is a deafening silence (because it disabled people's network connection, so they can't get online?)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's my point exactly... I cannot afford to be down, so I won't upgrade unless there's a really compelling reason to.. And that would take a lot of convincing.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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OriginalGriff wrote: but I'll upgrade to 10 probably next week.
I hope you're using the word "upgrade" in the generic, and not in the specific. I will never upgrade (specific usage) to a major version of an OS. I always install to an empty HD.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Fisher Price Windows
I seem to recall someone on this website once referring to XP's Luna theme as "Fischer Price." That wouldn't have been you, would it? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A=s I recall, XP was the Fisher-Price release; this one looks more like something Barney would endorse.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Why would I want to take a perfectly working computer and have a good chance of messing it up completely with a new operating system - I wouldn't unless I was insane, which is what I think of most people who go out and install brand new operating systems(before SP1 is released) unless they are doing it because they need to support their insane clients.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Well, it's not going well over here. Tried to install it twice last night, the first time nothing happened (literally, the downloader which was supposed to create a bootable usb wotsit just disappeared), the second time I got the mysterious 'something happened' error message.
It's enough to make me buy a Mac.
Sorry, I went delirious for a moment. I'm ok now.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/30/windows-10-something-happened-error[^]
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Microsoft wrote: We have seen unprecedented demand for Windows 10
Well, they did infect everyone's machine with a message telling them to 'reserve' their copy. Coupled with the facts it's free, it's not really that surprising is it?
You usually have to pay for your new version of Windows, and I bet that in the past the average user wouldn't even know when a newer OS was available.
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