Does Android x86 emulate ARM?

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Joel picture Joel · Aug 9, 2013 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

Trying to figure out how apps work on Android x86 in VMWare when they were compiled for ARM. Is the GUI running on Qemu? How exactly do they run if Android x86 is really x86?

Answer

user739711 picture user739711 · Feb 18, 2014

intel has released a library ('libhoudini') which translates arm instructions to x86. Then they get executed on x86 CPU.

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