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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

The emulator is very much on the roadmap. The improvement of the 
emulator is distributed between many development teams.  The emulator 
specific -gles packages are under a fundamental overhaul right now and 
you can expect improvements.

Anyhow, it is important to note that most of the cases you should not 
need a full system emulator like QEMU. QEMU is a great piece of software 
and it does offer valuable features... what most application and scope 
developers do not need. Most developers would be happy with a skinny and 
ligher UI simulator and that is exactly what the new LXD based runtime 
container will provide.

As an app/scope developer what we need is that when we hit the Play 
(Run) button in the IDE the application/scope will show up exactly as 
they would show up on a target device... may that device be a phone, 
tablet or a desktop. In the converged world the only difference would be 
te size of the display.

cheers,

bzoltan



On 16/03/16 20:37, Yasmany Cubela Medina wrote:
> It seems really nice. I just wanna suggest one extra line of work, 
> that will be the emulator.
>
> Right now the emulator its unusable, i cant tell for sure how many 
> developers pretend to use it or want to use it for real app 
> development, but in my particular case i do not have a physical phone 
> since i dont have the money to buy one, so i cant develop an 
> application. I want to develop a native facebook app, for that i need 
> to use several integration starting from the online-account module.
>
> As you can see the emulator is my only way to develop this app.
>
> Hope it can be fit some time to work on that.
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:50 PM Zoltán Balogh 
> <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     hi all,
>
>     I wrote up few thoughts about the plans of the SDK team for the
>     upcoming
>     cycle:
>     https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/03/16/planning-the-sdk-16-10/
>
>     Nothing is carved to marble, so if you have comments, ideas or
>     requests
>     please tell us.
>
>     cheers,
>
>     bzoltan
>
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