Hi guys Is it possible and if it is how much effor...

# android

[nukelar]

Hi guys
Is it possible and if it is how much effort it might take to create a simulator for 3rd-party non-mobile custom device, which is to be run on android phone? Maybe there are some tools/solutions which might help implementing this, or is this an absolutely uncommon task?

[Niklas Gürtler]

What kind of device is that? A LED, a computer, a rocket? Is it a physics simulation (FEM?), circuit simulation, logic simulation, CPU or OS or API simulation/emulation?

[nukelar]

It's a microcomputer with a screen (like in ebooks)

[Niklas Gürtler]

A "microcomputer", i.e. any kind of PC/desktop made since the 80ies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer

[nukelar]

yeah, i got more details.
So it runs the app written in micropython
Is it possible to pack it into an apk?

[Niklas Gürtler]

you could run a micropython interpreter inside your app, without simulating the entire hardware, yes

[nukelar]

Could you please share any link about this topic?

[Niklas Gürtler]

I don't have any, it's obviously a highly complex task

[nukelar]

Okay, thanks for that

[Niklas Gürtler]

Is your device one of the pyboards? Do you want to simulate the entire hardware, i.e. all the microcontroller periphery?

[nukelar]

I dont have info about that, but the device is still under development, so probably its not the pyboard

[Niklas Gürtler]

well, you're gonna need a lot more info and it will probably be a lot of work to simulate the hardware, unless there is some ready-to-use software for that

[Niklas Gürtler]

ARM cores can be emulated e.g. with qemu but you still need to implement periphery simulation

[nukelar]

Is there any required job needed from the device side, or it can all be done on android?

[Niklas Gürtler]

depends on what you want to do exactly. With that little info...

[nukelar]

I dont know enough either, anyway thanks