Homebrew Any way to install .APK on Luma?

[CheatFreak47]

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.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

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.

 

[brunocar]

OK then, anybody know of crossy road ports / homebrew?

crossy road is just frogger.

 

[3DSMaster2019]

I know, and I have it. But, I prefer the graphics in Crossy Road.

 

[DarkRioru]

there is a gba port of flappy bird that can be found on the internet somewhere because idk if I can link it because of it being a rom file

 

[IC_]

there is a gba port of flappy bird that can be found on the internet somewhere because idk if I can link it because of it being a rom file

If it's a free homebrew game made with homebrew tools and not leaked sdks and stuff you can probably link it

 

[DarkRioru]

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=...7oDVbxeo-9OgUZXB8MTU2NjAwNDM5MEAxNTY1OTE3OTkw

this is was coded and developed with the gb micro in mind so you would have to flip your 3ds sideways... kinda wish there was a 3ds port so I could see ahead of me on the touch screen...

 

[3DSMaster2019]

Thanks, but how about a APK Injector?

 

[Deleted User]

i thought this was a nancyds thread lmao

 

[SuperDan]

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_homebrew_games

OH thats new nice one .. Is there many NSMB 2 hack roms on 3ds

 

[SCOTT0852]

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.

 

[Mythical]

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

 

[SCOTT0852]

This is a 3ds thread not a switch thread

Horizon for Switch was actually based off Horizon for 3DS (Yuzu is a Citra fork for a reason), although I'm not sure why so few people know that Horizon for 3DS is actually called that.