Comments on: Jolla – Plain sailing

By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:04:23 +0000

agreed…but in my book a VM is pretty much the same as an emulator and has the same impact on performance….

By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:03:50 +0000

indeed they are…

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:22:32 +0000

“Play” is not just a store. Google has been moving a lot of APIs to Google Play. If an Android app needs Google Maps or hook into some other Google service that *seem* part of the OS, the “emulator” will probably not be enough in a phone that does not have Google Play installed.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:54:30 +0000

Will you be able to load APKs from the Play Store onto the device? So long as the device runs APKs, regardless of the source, then the lack of direct Play Store access may not be an issue. Great article!

By: Juha

Juha — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:25:55 +0000

Just one comment about Myriad’s Dalvik “emulator” – in fact it’s not emulator, but replacement for Google’s Dalvik virtual machine. According performance tests Myriad’s Turbo Dalvik implementation run Android apps around 3 times faster.

By: plaa

plaa — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:50:34 +0000

The apps are emulated?