Just curious if anyone tried this and what their impressions are. When my 8 year old desktop dies, I want to experiment with running it myself.
Just curious if anyone tried this and what their impressions are. When my 8 year old desktop dies, I want to experiment with running it myself.
Just curious if anyone tried this and what their impressions are. When my8
year old desktop dies, I want to experiment with running it myself.
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It would be interesting, but personally I'm not entirely sure why I would want to run Android on a desktop PC. Most Android apps rely on using a touch screen, and I generally don't like the idea of getting fingerprint smudges on my desktop monitor. Plus I think it could be somewhat uncomfortable to have
to reach out to your PC monitor all the time (as compared to using a keyboard and mouse). And I'm not sure how many apps are available for Android that let you interact with a keyboard & mouse and work similarly to desktop software apps.
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There is a project called Android x86 which ports Android releases to the desktop. I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting, and I think they do implement some features which adapt it to use on the desktop such as mouse and keyboard
support. So it doesn't require a touchscreen.
There is a project called Android x86 which ports Android releases to the desktop. I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting, and I think they do implement some features which adapt it to use on the desktop such as mouse and keyboard support. So it doesn't require a touchscreen.
Also, there are some Android phones and tablets that use Intel x86 processors.. So I'm wondering why they thought the name "Android x86" would automatically imply desktop.
I didn't know other manufacturers were making x86 phones.
Some of the rumorsthey
I've heard brewing about Microsoft killing off the Lumia line was that
were going to make an x86 "surface phone" that could run desktop apps.Pair
A desktop replacement phone that ran Windows apps would be intriguing.
with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse and HDMI monitor and you've got a one-stop solution for mobile and desktop.
Interesting.. Is it one group that's porting other peoples' Android software to
a desktop interface? If so, I wonder how they acquire the rights to do that.
A desktop replacement phone that ran Windows apps would be intriguing. Pair with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse and HDMI monitor and you've got a one-stop solution for mobile and desktop.
I heard about that. Something like that would be interesting. However, I'd think that it would be easy to start to rely on that as a main everyday computer, but I'm not sure I'd want to carry much of my personal data around in my pocket every day for fear it might be stolen.
Canonical was was working on a similar idea for the ubuntu phone. The ubuntu on your phone would have a unity like interface that is optimized
for phones, but if you plugged it into a dock with a monitor, it would come up as a normal desktop unity interface on the monitor.
like their $200 Windows 10 laptops. OneDrive plus a 2GB wireless data plan would be ugly, though - they'd have to figure out a way to add several lyers of "Are You Sure (Y/n)" before onedrive worked over the cell network.
I just cancelled my sub to OneDrive. I was paying $2/mo for somewhere around 150-GB and I was using it mostly to backup my YouTube videos. Then I was closing in on running out of space and the next package up was $10/mo for Office 365 and 1-TB storage.
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I've been playing with BTSync -- don't need to share with others, just sync data across my own systems. I like having my data on multiple
systems without putting it in the cloud.
Re: Anyone Run Android On the Desktop?
By: Mr. Cool to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Feb 09 2016 07:38 pm
Canonical was was working on a similar idea for the ubuntu phone. The ubuntu on your phone would have a unity like interface that is optimized for phones, but if you plugged it into a dock with a monitor, it would co up as a normal desktop unity interface on the monitor.
yeah i was waiting for that but is it vaporware? that was about 2 years or m ago, right?
That sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. I have a lot of data I want to sync between local PCs without going via a cloud service, which would be a severe bottleneck, compared to the 100 Mbps wired LAN.
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That sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. I have a lot of data I want to sync between local PCs without going via a cloud service, which would be a severe bottleneck, compared to the 100 Mbps wired LAN.
Definitely. I've got 22 gigs, over my LAN it takes about 5 minutes to
sync - and doesn't cost anything.
Definitely. I've got 22 gigs, over my LAN it takes about 5 minutes
to sync - and doesn't cost anything.
I've probably got 10 times that to sync. :)
I just moved all data off of OneDrive and onto Amazon. Amazon offers $60/yr for unlimited storage. I don't know if anyone else can beat that.
I'll keep the OneDrive (I think you get 20 or 40-GB free) as a way to
share files with others or amongst multiple devices.
Interesting.. Is it one group that's porting other peoples' Android
software to
a desktop interface? If so, I wonder how they acquire the rights to
do that.
no, it's an android VM
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I've probably got 10 times that to sync. :)
Docs and photos only -- no media. :)
I'll keep the OneDrive (I think you get 20 or 40-GB free) as a way to
share files with others or amongst multiple devices.
I'm still getting by with my 9GB of dropbox mostly... There's a few things I absolutely don't want to lose, the rest is on my NAS, and that's too big to backup reasonably, short of another, bigger NAS.
no, it's an android VM
To me, porting to a desktop app would imply re-writing the app as an actual desktop app rather than running the original in a VM (which is more along
the lines of emulation)..
I used Dropbox a lot until my company started blocking it at thefirewall.
I think I had 14 gb free or something like that. I used it primarily for
the basic stuff I wanted to share between my laptops and my desktop.
BTSync works pretty well for that now.
What we need is a meta filesystem that ties all of these gigs here, gigs there, and smb shares and local storage into one virtual file system.
To me, porting to a desktop app would imply re-writing the app as an
actual desktop app rather than running the original in a VM (which is
more along the lines of emulation)..
Android is pretty much Java with extra APIs... so not a really huge deal.
As to running android apps on a desktop, if they're already setup to scale from phone to tablet (as some are better than others), desktop isn't much of a stretch... the gmail app for example, judging from phone to desktop would be serviceable... some better than others.
Harder still is variance to remote stores... I'm considering setting up a fuse connection to s3, then having that shared via smb/cifs for my local network to use as a target for storage, most of which would be hard archives. Sorting through the crap is the hardest part... and missing/tossing somethign important is a hard lesson (learned several times).
My backup strategy is pretty bad, usually consists of a full file backup every 6 months or so along with the data that changes sitting on a couple
of systems and the cloud via a sync tool.
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