Shadow Acquires Android Emulation Startup Genymobile (techcrunch.com) 5
Shadow is making its first acquisition as it announced that it would snatch up Genymobile, the company behind Genymotion. From a report: Shadow is better known for its cloud computing service that works particularly well for cloud gaming. It also offers a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud. As for Genymobile, the French startup has been around for more than a decade. It has specialized in low-level Android development. And in particular, it has developed a popular Android emulator so that developers can test their apps on multiple configurations and following different scenarios. Terms of the deal are undisclosed. Genymobile's co-founder and CTO Arnaud Dupuis will stay at the company and act as the chief executive of Genymobile starting March 1st. Genymobile's existing CEO Tim Danford will step back from the company's day-to-day activities and move to an advisor role.
Goodbye scrcpy? (Score:3)
Genymobile's scrcpy is the best, free, stable, and, most importantly, the only non-malware laden and ad-free Android screen mirroring software that can be picked up by OBS.
Re: (Score:2)
Interesting to see how hard this story flopped. For negative values of interest?
As I comment, it is sitting at the bottom of the top page with a grand total of two comments.
Or maybe it's a measure of how far my interests are diverging from the average on Slashdot? I've actually been trying to learn about Android emulators for my Chromebook for many moons now... If this had been an active discussion, then maybe it would have been worth a query.
Summarizing the Chromebook (again): Not a terrible machine consid
Shadow? (Score:2)
Is this The Coming of Shadows [wikipedia.org] (for Genymotion) ?
Jolla seeking partners for their Android support (Score:2)
Not for development but presumably the best and most compatible consumer Android support without running Android or clones.
The only think I've not been able to run is Google Pay because MicroG don't support it.
https://jolla.com/appsupport/ [jolla.com]