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Młody lemmy.world mlxdy@lemmy.world
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As in title. As I know Android Studio need glibc so I need to use container but how about emulation in container? Is it possible? I have x86_64 CPU.

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just_another_person lemmy.world just_another_person@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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I'm confused by your question. Why would you need a container for this? There are other packages downloads for Android Studio. Container would be the most convoluted way of running it.

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nortio feddit.it nortio@feddit.it
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Yes, it's perfectly usable in a container. I use distrobox and the emulator works just fine

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chrash0 lemmy.world chrash0@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-03
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I'm confused by your question. Why would you need a container for this? There are other packages downloads for Android Studio. Container would be the most convoluted way of running it.

really? i mean, people have done it for friggin vanilla ass Node.js servers. Android projects can have weird dependencies that a container might help solve (NDK etc).

i’m not saying that it’s my preferred way to build, but that wasn’t the question.

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Młody lemmy.world mlxdy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-28
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I'm confused by your question. Why would you need a container for this? There are other packages downloads for Android Studio. Container would be the most convoluted way of running it.

Where are these packages?

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just_another_person lemmy.world just_another_person@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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really? i mean, people have done it for friggin vanilla ass Node.js servers. Android projects can have weird dependencies that a container might help solve (NDK etc). i’m not saying that it’s my preferred way to build, but that wasn’t the question.

Android Studio isn't just a simple app, nor a single executable, AND it maps out to a bunch of local sockets to your already running host to provide various services. Certainly not going to be easy or stable in a container, especially since they are asking about emulation as well.

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just_another_person lemmy.world just_another_person@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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Where are these packages?

Flatpak for one: https://github.com/flathub/com.google.AndroidStudio

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chrash0 lemmy.world chrash0@lemmy.world
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Android Studio isn't just a simple app, nor a single executable, AND it maps out to a bunch of local sockets to your already running host to provide various services. Certainly not going to be easy or stable in a container, especially since they are asking about emulation as well.

lots of good reasons to spin up containers for development is my point, especially for an embedded system with exotic system dependencies (compared to Node.js, for example).

Home Assistant is a “simple app” that i have to open ports for.

does that mean they have a good reason? maybe not.

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just_another_person lemmy.world just_another_person@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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lots of good reasons to spin up containers for development is my point, especially for an embedded system with exotic system dependencies (compared to Node.js, for example). Home Assistant is a “simple app” that i have to open ports for. does that mean they have a good reason? maybe not.

Did you read that I was saying containers are bad somewhere? You have misread.

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