For a more complicated variation: Android Emulator "AndyRoid.net"

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@tgauchat

Spawning from the discussion from Running SmartThings in Chrome Browser:

@NickW

Now that Google Chrome can now run Android apps locally, I thought I’d give it a shot in running SmartThings on my Windows 7 desktop. After following the linked guides, I can report that I can successfully control SmartThings from my Windows 7 machine.

For a variation on this theme, a more complex approach (but with certain advantages?) is to use one of the two or three Android emulation environments (BlueStacks, AndyRoid, ADK, ?).

I successfully installed AndyRroid 1 (it runs in an Oracle (Sun) VirtualBox as a virtual “Android Tablet”), and was able to install and run SmartThings from the Play Store.

If you need any help running AndyRoid, please feel welcome to contact me. There is also a support group on Facebook. I have some experience with VirtualBox, and I think that helped a little.

http://www.AndyRoid.net

@tgauchat
Is this still what you use, or have you moved on to something else?
I just got turned on to BlueStacks (well…re-turned-on, I guess…it’d been a while). It seems to work fine for the most part, but I’m wondering if there is a better way.

My main problem is that, even though it allowed me to copy/paste between Windows and Android in the emulator at first, it no longer allows it. I’m hoping to find another similar solution that will take care of that particular issue.

Something else is…I’d also like to have something I can run in a VM in my ESXi box; not necessarily instead of, but in addition to the emulator on Windows.