Android on VirtualBox
Written on June 13, 2010 by Katherine W. Prawl
If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I am doing a bit of rearranging in the sidebar, inserting a few ads, removing some obsolete widgets, etc. In the process of evaluating things to delete, I clicked on the Alltop link, and proceeded to get lost in reading some of the articles in that site. (Alltop is a personalizable, public news aggragator, which I wrote about here some time ago.) Obviously I’m keeping that one, especially since I found an article on a subject I’ve been wondering about — how to run Google’s Android OS without buying a new gadget.
As luck would have it, the guys at Java Code Geeks wrote about using Oracle/Sun Microsystem’s Virtual Box, which I have extolled in the past. So, I’m going to follow their tutorial, download the live CD, and have a go. If it’s really all that great, maybe I’ll even try my hand at developing an app for that platform, perhaps as a warmup to writing an iPhone/iPad app, who knows?
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