Bluestacks Vs. LeapDroid, which is better?

Recently the market has filled up with a lots of new and great Android Emulators. This has challenged the monopoly of Bluestacks. Also i believe that there are now some emulators which beat Bluestacks easily. Here i am explaining how LeapDroid (another free great emulator) is better than  Bluestacks.

1. LeapDroid is Faster
     LeapDroid boots up faster than Bluestacks.

2. LeapDroid gives you better storage space
    In LeapDroid you can use up all the free hard disk space in the emulator.

3. Bloatwares
    LeadDroid won't force you to install any app or game while Bluestacks will do that daily.

4. Reliability
     I used both emulators and sometimes Bluestacks even refuses to start for days, such a problem has never occurred to me with LeapDroid.

5. No crashes
     Bluestacks crashes on my machine every 10 minutes when i use an app continuously but no such problem occurs with LeapDroid.


LeapDroid has given me a completely better experience.
Also you might wanna know how to transfer files between LeapDroid and Windows host using shared folder between the host and the Android VM.

Running 32-bit eclipse ADT in 64-bit ubuntu 12.04

Here are the steps to safely install Android SDK on ubuntu 12.04 and avoid any errors.

1. Install eclipse Android SDK on 64-bit linux as directed                   at https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html.

Now eclipse will run fine but when we try to launch AVD emulator it may throw an error :

Cannot run program “ xx/sdk//tools/emulator”: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

Info :
This is very common on 64-bit linux with a very simple solution.
mentioned at https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
solution according to them is :

Installing Android SDK compat libraries

Some users using the Android SDK might encounter problems when trying to run build-tools or platform-tools on amd64 bit platform. As replacement for ia32-libs, users should be fine just installing the following libraries:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
aptitude update
aptitude install libstdc++6:i386 libgcc1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386

 But this is not the solution for ubuntu 12.04 users
 because "--add-architecture" is not supported with the dpkg version (1.16.1.2 (amd64)) supplied with ubuntu 12.04. Thus we have to do the same thing in another way. Here is how :
Solution :

make sure the only file present in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/ is "multiarch"

ls /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/

if output is multiarch, execute the following commands as it is else replace "multiarch" with the name of file present in that directory.

sudo sh -c "echo 'foreign-architecture i386' > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch"

The above commands will add i386 architecture (alternate command to "dpkg --add-architecture i386") . The rest commands are the same (you can use aptitude instead of apt-get if you have aptitude installed)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libstdc++6:i386 libgcc1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386 

 Run the above commands and you're done! The emulator should work fine now.

Tried On : Ubuntu 12.04 + eclipse+ADT Build : v22.3.0-887826
May also work on : Ubuntu 12.04 and later versions , but note that for versions later than 12.04 , the first official solution mentioned in this post is easier.