Homebrew Any way to install .APK on Luma?

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The new 3DS can barely even run windows 95's desktop (and that's after multiple minutes of loading), there's no way it can run a much more complex OS like android.
Saying the 3DS can't run android because it can't run Windows 95 is like, the definition of a false equivalency. Windows 95 was designed to run on an x86 instruction set, meaning that there's a huge amount of emulation going on between Windows 95 and the actual 3DS hardware.

Emulation causes overhead, and all sorts of issues. The 3DS is an ARM device and Android is, guess what- an OS designed to run on ARM processors primarily.

The problem with the 3DS running android is that someone would need to get android working with the 3DS hardware, and it would need to be a lite enough android version that it is capable of running on the limited resources the 3DS has to offer.

I'm guessing an n3DS could probably run Gingerbread or Jellybean or something super old that ran on much weaker smartphones of the time, given a competent developer taking all the time and effort to port it properly, but I think actually playing any android games or whatever is probably mostly out of the question. Just getting the OS running would be rather difficult I think.
 

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The new 3DS can barely even run windows 95's desktop (and that's after multiple minutes of loading), there's no way it can run a much more complex OS like android.

Running Windows is completely different from Android, windows was designed for x86 CPUs (not arm) for a desktop environment, windows is much more resource hungry than linux/Android,plus you'd need custom kernels for 3ds to boot windows natively, if you're using dosbox it's going to suck since you're technically emulating dos and win95, not running it natively , if you can run Android on a ti cx graphing calculator with no gpu, 400mhz arm cpu, 64mb of ram and ~100MB of storage, a new 3ds could handle Android.
 

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how about a APK Injector?
You can't just inject APKs. Injects use a premade emulator (or, in the case of GBA injects, real hardware hidden in the console), so injecting an apk would require an android emulator which would be even harder to run than just android as you'd be running Horizon in the background too.
 

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You can't just inject APKs. Injects use a premade emulator (or, in the case of GBA injects, real hardware hidden in the console), so injecting an apk would require an android emulator which would be even harder to run than just android as you'd be running Horizon in the background too.
This is a 3ds thread not a switch thread
 

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