mobile dev confusion

[JJS]

So in fact the only great thing now for x86 and x86-64 is the high speed 
emulator.

Makes it strange right, there are almost no x86 or x86-64 real phones, 
but in Android Studio you see as of Android 8 and up only x86 system 
images and no ARM at all.


I don't get it, where is the logic behind this.



Op 28-12-2019 om 20:48 schreef J. Landman Gay via use-livecode:
> Actually after some research, I've decided not to bother with x86 
> builds. There are only one or two models that support it and those are 
> very old. The current user base is a fraction of one percent according 
> to some charts. Support for x86 chips on mobile devices apparently was 
> dropped some years ago.
>
> One stackOverflow comment implied that x86 would be useful if we 
> wanted to support Chromebooks, but those machines work well with 
> 32-bit Android apps and LC doesn't officially support Chromebooks anyway.
>
> If anyone has other info, hopefully they'll chime in here.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On December 28, 2019 12:14:29 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm so relieved. Thank you.
>>
>> It didn't make sense to me, but I saw no explanation about that part 
>> of it
>> anywhere.
>>
>> Full speed ahead. (ish)
>>
>> I am struggling a bit getting it to work in the emulator.... it seems 
>> like
>> I can only do ARM architecture on V7 or below in the emulator. And using
>> an X86 emulator gives me the "NO_MATCHING_ABM" error when I hit test.
>>
>> But at least there are no permanent obstacles.
>>
>> :) Thanks again.
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> LC uses the SDK primarily for its build tools, which allow the IDE to
>>> create standalones for Android. The SDK does not affect the versions of
>>> Android your app will require. For years we built apks using SDK 6, and
>>> apps built using those tools still run on Android 10 today.
>>>
>>> A while back the SDK 6 build tools no longer worked with the current
>>> version of LC and we had to update to SDK 8 for compatibility. I am
>>> building apks with that SDK that run on all versions of Android from 
>>> 4.x
>>> on
>>> up to 10.
>>>
>>> The Android versions you want to support are set in standalone 
>>> settings.
>>> -- 
>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>> On December 27, 2019 8:37:23 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi folks, I'm following this tutorial
>>> >
>>> > 
>>> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/985962-livecode-and-android-studio
>>> >
>>> > and i've installed android 8.0 SDK as specified ....
>>> >
>>> > the distribution chart says that only 6% of devices have this 
>>> version of
>>> > android.
>>> >
>>> > Does this mean only 6% of devices will be able to correctly 
>>> install my
>>> > application?
>>> >
>>> > ?????????????
>>> >
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