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Run android emulator on remote ssh based linux machine and display it on local browser


I have recently been playing around with code-server, which is a Visual Studio Code IDE that can be ran on the remote machine and accessed through the browser. For that I made a google vm instance of Ubuntu LTS 16.04, and I was successfull to launch it and install the Flutter and Dart sdks. Because of the flutter_web and flutter itself still being unable to unify in one codebase, I ran into a lot of incompatibilities which made it impossible to debug my application as a web-site.

Now I want to launch the android emulator instead, because I would be able to test and debug the apps, but I didn't find any source of information on how to install it and display it remotely, for example, in local browser.

Is it practically possible? And if it is, please tell me how. Because me being able to develop flutter apps on iPad would be really cool.


Solution

  • Actually this out of our scope as is not related to the Google Compute Engine product, anyway I would give my best effort to help you:

    Google Marketplace has an awesome product called Genymotion [1] which is an Android Emulator. I tried and it's one click deploy, very useful.


    [1] https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/partners/genymotion-public-project