Creating a new emulator is very confusing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Zoltan Balogh |
Bug Description
Creating a new emulator from Ubuntu SDK is very confusing. As per the attached screenshot, I have to choose a "channel". The options open to me are: devel, devel-proposed, bq-stable, bq-rc, rc-proposed, and custom channel. I do not know what any of these mean. Which is being run on my Meizu MX-4? Which is being run on my Bq E4.5? The phone does not list any of these names in System Settings > About this phone, or in System Settings > About this phone > OS Build Details. The "OS" listed in "About this phone" is "Ubuntu 15.04 (r3)", which seems to not have anything to do with any of these channels. How can I create an emulator which is running the same software as my phone? How can I create an emulator which is running the same software as a phone that someone who is not a developer would have? The point of creating an emulator is to use it to test applications to ensure they will work on phones in the wild, but I don't know how to set it up so that it is emulating phones in the wild.
Changed in qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
assignee: | nobody → Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan) |
If you want to create an emulator what is (close to*) identical with the bq E.4.5 released image then you want to use the bq-stable.
The -rc stands for release candidate and the rc-proposed is the staging.
The devel and devel-proposed as it is used in the Ubuntu terminology stands for the Ubuntu development release. Right now it is a wily based image.
More details about the channels and channel names you can find here: https:/ /developer. ubuntu. com/en/ start/ubuntu- for-devices/ image-channels/
But sorry for the confusion. The SDK tools do not define the channel names, just shows them in the list.
* close ti identical means that the emulator is an i386 based qemu image not an armhf based real one