


After initially installing Android-x86 4.3 on VirtualBox, my app promptly crashed while attempting to sign into Google Play. The Android-x86 version thankfully includes the Google Play Store, and what that means is that unlike the standard emulator, Android-x86 on VirtualBox can install updated versions of Google Play Services. Requires 3159100 but found 3136130," and unfortunately that meant waiting for another emulator release, which took almost a month to fix after it was first reported and reared its head again briefly awhile later although has now been fixed. Android on the emulator gave an error message to the effect, "Google Play services out of date. Where this became a problem was when a version of the Google Play Services SDK was released that was incompatible with the emulator's version. I recently integrated Google Play Game Services into tXtFL Mobile, and one issue that cropped up during testing is that the standard emulator's version of the Play Services is baked into the emulator image so that it can't be updated separately from the entire emulator image. There was no need for special partitioning for an SD card, and customizing screen resolution was similar to my prior experience except that I didn't have to adjust the DPI setting.Īn additional motivation to retry Android on VirtualBox was to see whether Google Play Services might work better on it. I used the same settings that I had used for Android 4.0, except that I happily managed to get away with using only 256 MB of RAM.
