[Android-tools-devel] Android 10 and whole bunch of questions -

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

If you just want to run the emulator and don't need anything else, then
you can just directly download the emulator .zip Android SDK component,
unzip that, and run it.  It could be great to have a
google-android-emulator contrib package that does this for you.
Something like this:
https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/google-android-ndk-installer

direct download links and checksums are maintained here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=android-emulator

As for turning off non-member posting, we have to keep the list open to
any poster, unforatuntely, because its a team email account used in the
debian/control "Maintainer:" field.  It is a bummer, I couldn't find
another way around it, but I'm open to solutions if someone wants to dig
into the problem.

.hc

Raman Sarda:
> Hii. Raman here.
> Let's address your queries one by one:
> 
> a) Spam on mailing list. I agree there's some spam. Maybe cdesai or andrewsh_ or _hc or someone with admin access can set up a moderator who checks and approves all the mails sent to the list by non-members. It really helps in fighting spam. I moderate the mailing lists for Lubuntu. I can help in getting started if someone wants to take up the job.
>
> b) Space. Yeah it does takes space. Nothing unusual. But I'd suggest not setting up a AVD and use a real device to test your apps. Much faster and doesn't put too much pressure on your systems resources. You just need to connect your phone using a cable and enable usb debugging. The device will show up beside the run button. AVD really churns your resources. Not suggested unless you have above average processing power.
>
> c) Can you elaborate as to what exactly is confusing to you?
> About your goal to have a android emulator to install apks and use as a real device, you can look for anbox. A snap is available. I'd say give it a try. Works pretty good for me for regular apps. Doesn't work for apps like wireguard.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> On 3 April 2020 2:43:45 am IST, "shirish शिरीष" <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I have a bunch of questions and none of the answers, So here goes -
>>
>> a. Can't we clean up the mailing list ? There is just so much spam on
>> the mailing list. It would be nice if we can clean it up, would make
>> it easier for us to find the answers or know what's what rather than
>> working through all that spam/
>>
>> b. Because of covid-19 I took a chance yesterday and tried out
>> https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidStudio . The only difference is I took
>> android-studio-ide-192.6308749-linux.tar.gz .
>>
>> Just setting up the emulator takes up so much space, it has already
>> taken 5 GB + and how much more it will take is beyond me. Although in
>> nautilus it only shows as 1.5 GB taken and I have no idea how much
>> more it will need. Does anybody know that ?  I did install in avd
>> Android 10 [1] (maybe that wasn't needed) ?
>>
>> I have ample of memory but maybe the android studio does not know that -
>>
>> $ free -h
>>              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
>> Mem:           23Gi       3.7Gi        14Gi       337Mi       5.5Gi        18Gi
>> Swap:          59Gi          0B        59Gi
>>
>> c. The KVM instructions given at [2] and [3] are a bit confusing.
>> Could somebody share what needs to be done. I will update the wiki
>> with the instructions as and when they work for me. My goal atm here
>> is to have an android emulator on which I can have google play store,
>> download apk's and use it as I would an actual device.
>>
>> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_10
>> 2. https://wiki.debian.org/android-sdk
>> 3. https://wiki.debian.org/KVM
>>
>