“Android is a popular mobile operating system that has a wide library of apps, some of which are useful on the desktop,” Andrew Kunesh reports for Tuts+. “Luckily, because Android is open source, it can be run on just about any device, including a Mac.”
“In order to run a full install of Android on a Mac, you’ll need to set up and install an Android virtual machine,” Kunesh reports.
“And though there’s a ton of virtualization software available for the Mac, I’ll you how to create an Android virtual machine using VirtualBox, a free open-source piece of virtualization software by Oracle,” Kunesh reports. “Aside from some app incompatibility issues, the new virtual machine can be used to do just about anything you’d do on a standard Android device: from browsing the web to editing documents in Google Drive.”
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Jeez why would anyone subject themselves to this? Masochism?
Just why would I pollute my mac with this drek?
Yeah, I think I’ll just take a crap on my MacBook Pro and call it even.
The question is not, “Can you do it?”, but rather, “Why would you ever want to do it?”
“In order to run a full install of Android on a Mac, you’ll need a lobotomy trepanned by Dr. Vinnie Boom-Batz.”
Oh gee! I can’t wait.
Also, that Android image includes proprietary Google software such as Play which is not open source and whose license doesn’t allow free distribution.
So this is only free in the way that Microsoft Windows is “free”, i.e. if you find it on PirateBay.
“Luckily, because Android is open source, it can be……”.
Yeah, right! It is so Open even Samsung is trying to get something else….because it is actually quite CLOSED to Google. Yet it is OPEN just enough to allow virus’s in.
So, what is OPEN but yet is CLOSED?
Answer: Android.
Another riddle comes to mind. Why would anyone want to install virus ridden piece of crap on their Mac? Alas, to this riddle I have no answer.
…and I just finished installing the engine from my Yugo into my Lamborghini!
“Running Android On A Mac For Free”
What? As opposed to running it not for FREE.
“you’d do on a standard Android device: from browsing the web to editing documents”
Ohhhh! I now get to brows the web and edit documents on my Mac!
/S
Well, that’s one way to get malware on your Mac.
MDN headline is missing the last words, “Running Android on a Mac for free … viruses and malware”.
Maybe on some ancient traditional calendar, it’s their equivalent of “April Fools Day”.
Put your 1994 Ford Blazer’s engine inside of your Bugatti
If I want ‘manure’ I will get something better than ‘Android’.
Hey, Next will be Installing Android on your iphone
If some wants android so bad, just get an android device, no need a mac for that 💩
While I tend to agree (in principle) with all the posts here, I can totally understand how this proposition can be appealing to someone.
This falls into the category of those things that people do not because they are practical or useful, but because they are supposed to be either impossible, or extremely difficult to do. Whoever does this (Android on Mac) isn’t doing it in order to do on a Mac something they couldn’t do before, but just as a sheer obstacle to overcome. Once that Android is installed on that Mac and proven running, such user will likely delete it within weeks after having played with it to make sure everything works as it should (and tinkering/fixing things until it does).
I have great respect for tinkerers; that type of thinking brings innovation (remember Steve Jobs and his “Blue Box”?)
It’s not something very significant to overcome. Parallels for example comes with a disk image, you just click “Android” or “Chrome OS” (or Ubuntu if you wanted”.
However, there is a significant practical application for this which is why I have various disk images in Parallels, that is if you’re developing apps or content cross-platform, it can make it much easier (and cheaper) than buying individual hardware for each platform.
I’d suggest tinkering to do stupid stuff is… um… stupid. Surely actual tinkering will give something that is new, or more useful, or fun, or cheaper.
This really is a case of stuffing a Yugo engine into a Lamborghini. How is that appealing? For fun, some hot rodders put high-performance engines into banal car bodies. OK, I can see that. I don’t think there are any cases of putting a banal engine into a high-end chassis.
Next to Winblows running on a VM in Mac, Droid’ is the second level of torture.
That’s like intentionally giving yourself herpes to see what it feels like.
‘To be out of your damn mind’ is what you’ll need……Or just a curious techie.
So let me understand this:
Mac can run OX
Mac can run Windows
Mac can run Android
My question: Why is anyone buying any other computer?
My Asus was $400… /s
It is easy to understand.
People buy winblows computers because: they are cheap bastards, they hate Apple.
Why is this news? I run this every day in Oracle’s VB with VM’s from Genymotion.
Sorry guys, it’s my job. (Development)
WHY!!!