In my quest to use Pleco on the desktop, for easier presentation to friends I'm teaching Chinese to, I have been searching for an Android Emulator that uses a more up to date version of Android than the bluestacks software. I also don't know how safe my information is in bluestacks since it isn't clear what their business model is, and if they are reselling personal data. I also tried WindowsAndroid, but Pleco would not even start on it. I haven't tried Jar of Beans due to it apparently only having acceptable performance on intel CPUs, which my desktop doesn't have.
So I found AndroVM, and it seems to be well maintained and is open source. It's using Jelly bean, and has google play available, as well as being pre rooted.
So, Pleco runs great on it, so far as I can test the features available in the free version of Pleco. I can't get the program to accept my registration credentials when entered. I enter the number, then press ok, and Pleco hangs for around 30 secs- 1 min, then force closes. So obviously I can't get any of the paid features on the VM to see if they work correctly.
I realize that messing with VMs is probably not on the list of important things for Mike Love to do, so can any of my more Linux/Android knowledgeable friends here check out this VM, and see if you can get some log file that points to why Pleco crashes at the entry of the registration code?
This is the most promising Android emulation that I have found, and many devs are using this to develop on since the official Android SDK is so slow.
This is my set-up.
Windows 7 Ultimate 3ghz AMD Phenom QuadCore, 8GB RAM, SSD, and HDD
http://androvm.org/blog
I'm using AndroVM .ova file named:
androVM_vbox86tp_4.1.1_r4-20121119-gapps-houdini-flash.ova
http://androvm.org/blog/download/
I'm using Virtual box ver. 4.124r82872 due to recommendation of AndroVM forums since newer versions have been reported to have issues.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_1
You can use Andro VM with or without the VMplayer software that adds opengl hardware acceleration. I use it on my desktop, but don't on my laptop.
So I found AndroVM, and it seems to be well maintained and is open source. It's using Jelly bean, and has google play available, as well as being pre rooted.
So, Pleco runs great on it, so far as I can test the features available in the free version of Pleco. I can't get the program to accept my registration credentials when entered. I enter the number, then press ok, and Pleco hangs for around 30 secs- 1 min, then force closes. So obviously I can't get any of the paid features on the VM to see if they work correctly.
I realize that messing with VMs is probably not on the list of important things for Mike Love to do, so can any of my more Linux/Android knowledgeable friends here check out this VM, and see if you can get some log file that points to why Pleco crashes at the entry of the registration code?
This is the most promising Android emulation that I have found, and many devs are using this to develop on since the official Android SDK is so slow.
This is my set-up.
Windows 7 Ultimate 3ghz AMD Phenom QuadCore, 8GB RAM, SSD, and HDD
http://androvm.org/blog
I'm using AndroVM .ova file named:
androVM_vbox86tp_4.1.1_r4-20121119-gapps-houdini-flash.ova
http://androvm.org/blog/download/
I'm using Virtual box ver. 4.124r82872 due to recommendation of AndroVM forums since newer versions have been reported to have issues.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_1
You can use Andro VM with or without the VMplayer software that adds opengl hardware acceleration. I use it on my desktop, but don't on my laptop.