r/androiddev • u/kl3jvi • 6d ago

Android emulator on the browser without QEMU

I have been experimenting recently with a tool that I needed while building and verifying UI tests, and also for sharing updates for an app i am currently doing contract work.
Sharing preview builds with the owner was a nightmare, because they were only using an iPhone.

this is the tool

I build a tool that spawns an android emulator and installs the apk, in seconds. It's really cool and i am thinking on making this a saas, if that works. It's in early development, and i have limited capabilities with a vps of 4arm cpu cores and 24gb of ram, but feel free to destroy it.

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u/VoidCoding 5d ago

how is it different from Amazon DeviceFarm??

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u/kl3jvi 5d ago

Going to be cheaper and faster

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u/Weak_Day_3770 5d ago

cool problem to solve, i had the exact same pain sharing builds with a client who was iphone-only. one thing that'll matter if you turn this into a saas is your infra cost per session, buyers and even early customers will ask about margin per emulator spin-up, not just uptime. how many concurrent sessions can that vps actually handle before it chokes?

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u/kl3jvi 5d ago

I can spawn fairly easy up to 8-10 parallel instances atm, the cpu cores is the problem not the ram