“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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Oh.. And all this is nonsense. They don’t tell you that the OpenGL drivers don’t work right, or there is a bad library in the VM causing a memory leak. Or that there is NO way you would enjoy even a simple game like Angry Birds in this virtual machine.
Yeah, it will run. But not really.
So. Please. People. Don’t try this.
Developers already know how. Part of the Android SDK. Non-developers…stay away.
How in the gods name wants run android is just pollution