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		hulitu on Nov 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MacBook Air M1: the best laptop? > Why should an Android developer not "have to" run an Android emulator? Why should ? We don't run PC emulators or MacOsX emulators to develop SW. Only Android and iOS are not able to function as real OSs.

jsight on Nov 29, 2021 [–]

We actually do run those emulators (or at least virtualization) when developing across platforms.

With root, Android could even make a decent host platform for doing development, but that doesn't obviate the need for emulators and virtualization systems.

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