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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 08 2015, @05:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the emulate-this! dept.

Microsoft may have sidelined its effort to allow Android apps to run unmodified on Windows 10. But Windows users have been able to do this on PCs for over a year at very low cost - thanks to a cunning virtualization project.

DuOS, or AmiDuOS, is an emulator that provides excellent compatibility for Android apps on the desktop. And perhaps unsurprisingly it survived an interesting history of tussles with Google before staking its claim.

[...] If this is the shape of things to come, it poses some intriguing strategic questions for Microsoft. Microsoft risks losing the developer client base that it has been able to take for granted for two decades. Windows has a huge app gap, and is marginal in mobile and tablets. Ideally, Microsoft wants developers to write to a Universal API that is compatible across Windows PCs and ARM-based mobile devices such as tablets and phones. But the apps have already been written, in Java, for Android.

Credit: Posted by RS Wood on comp.misc

Related: Steve Balmer: Use Android to Save Windows Phone


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  • (Score: 1) by Chromium_One on Tuesday December 08 2015, @08:42PM

    by Chromium_One (4574) on Tuesday December 08 2015, @08:42PM (#273608)

    Best estimate I have for Android x86 [4.4-r3] is hovering around a 60% app compatibility rate when running on a VM. Anything requiring hardware video rendering [which is mostly but not entirely games] just falls down. Install direct to real hardware kinda sidesteps the whole point, but then raises the compat rate to around 90% or so.

    Don't even bother with the 5.x pre-release that's available.

    Maybe in the not-so-distant future this might be a reasonable answer, but for now it ain't.

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