What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:03:17 -0000 (UTC), Joe Scotch wrote:

It seems the quirks are similar between VirtualBox and VMWare.

In VirtualBox, the mouse is so hellish that it's the *major* flaw in the
setup, unless there's a trick to get the mouse to behave.

It takes *dozens* of steps to get past a multiple-click screen, such as the
Android setup screens are. It just does. It defies comprehension, and it
certainly defies an easy description.

The hellish mouse cursor works, but it's quirky as all hell. It will select
the wrong things so many times that it's not funny. You have to hold down
the left mouse button but the range of motion of the cursor is only one
small area on the Android screen - maybe 1/5th or 1/6th of the screen. So
you're constantly moving the mouse and then lifting up and then moving it.

That wouldn't be so bad if the cursor would start the second time where you
put it, but it doesn't. It's only sort of kind of in that spot you last
left it.

That too wouldn't be so bad if a scroll screen didn't occur - but when they
do, you end up constantly scrolling incorrectly, and selection buttons go
on and off because the mouse seems to start pseudo randomly on the screen.

So you move the mouse cursor constantly, where a multi-click screen takes
at least ten times the minimum clicks, and often twenty times that,
depending on the complexity of the screen.

There *must* be a trick to this mouse inside the Android window inside of
VirtualBox on Windows, because it's completely unusable as it stands.

Certainly the VirtualBox mouse additions is not the trick.

Maybe the guest additions ISO will solve it - but I can't get it to
install.


In VMware it is still quite usable without mouse guest additions.
Your experience with VirtualBox sounds far worse than mine with VMware.

In VMware you just have to remember that, without mouse guest additions,
the mouse operates in two different modes:
(1) The mouse is owned by the host.
(2) The mouse is owned by the guest.

If the mouse is owned by the host and you want to click on something
in the guest, it takes two clicks like so

1. You click the _host's_ mouse pointer in the VM client window.
2. Then you move the _guest's_ mouse pointer to the guest thing
you want to click on, ands click.

The Windows (host) mouse pointer is white with a black border, while
the Android (guest) mouse pointer is black with a white border.
So it is easy to see which mouse pointer you are working with.


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Kind regards
Ralph