Problem
I was looking at the Android software development kit (ADK) yesterday, while I was trying to test my latest app out on android, and the emulator was running extremely slow on my fast computer, so I googled "
slow android emulator", just to make sure it was not only me. As it runs out, it was
not, many people are upset about the speed of the emulator.
Solution
I thought, hey wait a minute, maybe we could fix this, if it was running on similar hardware, like a mobile device. Then I thought, why not run the emulator on an iPad? This might be crazy, but I know I would like to have an emulator that could start up android apps, I don't actually want the full emulator with the browser and settings, I just want to show me a list of apps, and let me click one. The iPad would be more the fast enough to support this, and it has hardware features that are similar to that of the android tablets.
It's also worth noting that the emulator is not open source, so it would not be a simple thing to do, but I am wondering why not have Google do it? It would increase the size of it's install base, not something they are currently very concerned with, but it would also mean, that android runs everywhere, and that was a theme at Google IO this year.
I will keep my fingers crossed on this one.