Why not standard Android emulators?

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Published on 2010-01-13T16:39:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 13:33 UTC
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I'm new to Android, but have published iphone and bberry apps. I see that I have to create an emulator using the SDK, before I can write and test an app. Why are there no default emulators? Why not at least a Nexus one, or HTC hero emulator shipped with the product?

Sure its supposed to be flexible, but why not make it easy to create hello world and play around with a virtual Android phone? Both blackberry and iphone come with default simulators when you download the sdk.

Thanks, Gerry

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