I’ve done all this in a computer running Ubuntu 14.04 with an AMD FX8350 processor and 16 GB RAM. If you want to give it a try, you’ll need a Linux PC, and patience, as it may take about one day to retrieve the source code, and build everything from source.
It also contains a Build image of the AOSP system for ARM64. I’ve just done that, but unfortunately, albeit the builds complete, I could not manage to start Android L in QEMU yet. Macbook pro m1 android emulator We made a first first preview of the emulator running on Apple Silicon available here. Alex Bennée, an engineer working for Linaro, wrote a blog post in Linaro’s Core Dump blog explaining the Android emulator is actually based on QEMU, the differences compared to mainline QEMU, the work they’ve done on Android L at Linaro, and most importantly, provided the basic steps showing how to build and try Android L 64-bit ARM (ARMv8) in QEMU. But thanks to a small team at Linaro, you can now build and run Android L 64-bit ARM in the latest version of QEMU that supports Aarch64. Most people can’t afford Juno Cortex A57/A53 development board, and mobile processors based on the latest 64-bit ARM cores are only expected by early 2015.
