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Why a web-based emulator? Just use the one that's included with the Android SDK. You can simulate any combination of memory, screen size, screen resolution, and various hardware characteristics. Sure it can be slow, but it's getting better and is actually emulating the system you're developing for.


Is the emulator in the SDK usable now? Last time I tried Android programming it was slow as hell. Unusable even for a simple Phonegap app.


If you use the Android x86 system image it's not bad at all. ARM emulation is still slow as molasses.


Try enabling GPU emulation if you're dealing with ICS. It's much, much faster.


It's still slow because it literally emulates the phone running on an ARM CPU rather than simulate ala the iPhone simulator which runs an x86 version of IOS.


Unless you use the x86 emulator image.


You've never actually built an Android app have you ? The emulator is NOTHING like the real devices.


Yes I have. Admittedly we usually used real devices for testing but the emulator does just fine debugging most "fragmentation" issues (screen size and resolution and Android API differences).




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