mobile dev confusion

[J. Landman Gay]

I remember Panos mentioning that one of the primary reasons for including 
X86 was so we could use the faster emulator. I know I stopped using the 
emulator years ago because it was too slow to be useful.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On December 28, 2019 4:05:11 PM JJS via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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