How to Run Android Honeycomb on Ubuntu

Android Honeycomb has an interface designed for tablets.

Android Honeycomb, or Android 3, is a version of Android specially designed for tablets. Google provides a free Android software development kit targeted at Android developers, which you can use to emulate Android Honeycomb and run it in a window on your Ubuntu system. After downloading the version of the Android Honeycomb platform you want to use, you can use the Android SDK Manager application to create an Android virtual device, or AVD, file and boot it.

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Instructions

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  Download the latest Android SDK for Linux from the Download the Android SDK page on Developer.Android.com.
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  Extract the downloaded .tgz archive by right-clicking it and selecting “Extract Here.”
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  Double-click the extracted “Android-sdk-linux_x86” folder and then double-click the “Tools” folder inside it.
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  Double-click the “Android” file in the Tools folder and click the “Run” button.
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  Select “Available Packages” at the left side of the Android SDK and AVD Manager window that appears and click the arrow to the left of “Android Repository” to download information about available Android platforms.
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  Click the check box to the left of “SDK Platform Android 3.0,” “SDK Platform Android 3.1,” “SDK Platform Android 3.2” or another version of Honeycomb you want to run.
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  Click the “Install Selected” button and click “Install” to download and install the version of Android Honeycomb you selected.
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  Close “Close” after the download finishes, select the “Virtual Devices” option at the left side of the window and click the “New” button.
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  Type a name for your device, such as “Android Honeycomb,” into the Name box.
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  Click the “Target” box and select the version of Android Honeycomb you downloaded in the list.
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  Specify a size for your virtual SD card. For example, type “5” into the SD Card Size box and select “GiB” from the drop-down box to specify a size of five gigabytes.
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  Click “Create AVD” to create the AVD and click “OK” to continue.
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  Select your AVD device from the list by clicking it, click the “Start” button and click “Launch” to boot it.