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Old 04-30-2014, 05:49 PM   #1
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My bandwidth is limited and my data is capped, but I would love to run some Android apps on Linux Mint.

What would be the most user friendly way to go about this?
 
Old 04-30-2014, 06:51 PM   #2
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I think the only way you can run android apps on top of linux is within an emulator which is not very user friendly, if you take a look at the android architecture you'll see that there are many layers supporting the applications - Android core libraries, Dalvik virtual machine and all the components of the application framework.

If you install the ADT bundle you can launch an emulated version of several common devices and run any apps, but the performance is not great and I don't think this is what you're looking for.
 
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I think I'll shelve the idea; thanks for your advice.
 
Old 04-30-2014, 08:35 PM   #4
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Code:
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Use this to search Google. You may find some insight to you wish.
 
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Old 04-30-2014, 11:40 PM   #5
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This may not be exactly what you have in mind but it is one option: http://fixedbyvonnie.com/2014/02/ins...ng-virtualbox/
 
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Check out GenyMotion. Uses VirtualBox to run Android.

http://www.genymotion.com/
 
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