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CircleCI-Public / cimg-android

The CircleCI Android Docker Convenience Image.
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Feature Request: ARM host images #87

Closed mirokolodii closed 1 year ago

mirokolodii commented 1 year ago

Describe the Feature Request There are Android emulator images with ARM architecture available on CircleCI. As example: system-images;android-31;default;arm64-v8a In order to run them though, host should also be ARM based, while current Android host images are x86_64.

Is your feature request related to a particular problem? Some of Android 3rd party libraries stopped supporting x86_64 architecture (because basically all current Android devices are ARM based, while it takes a lot of maintenance work for 3rd party library owners to continue supporting x86_64 architecture). So, if I want to run Android automated tests (UI tests) of an app, which doesn't support x86_64 architecture, on emulator, I can only do that on ARM based emulator.

How will this feature request benefit CircleCI jobs using this image? CircleCI jobs will be able to run Android automated tests of apps, which do not support x86_64 architecture.

Describe the solution you would like to see I would like to have possibility to run emulator with ARM architecture, using one of Android-ready host images on CircleCI.

Describe alternatives you have considered Alternative is to provide some dummy implementation for 3rd party SDK, which doesn't support x86_64 architecture, for test build variants. The side effect is that there will be difference in code between test builds and non-test builds, so tests will not be run on exactly the same codebase, which is used on real-life scenarios.

ryanbourdais commented 1 year ago

Hi @mirokolodii if this is in reference to the machine images you can create a feature request here on canny. We use this to track how much desire there is for new images. On the other hand, if this is a request for a docker ARM image for android as a response to yesterday's announcement you can respond to this form that we are using to help prioritize which convenience images receive arm support first.