I suppose this is beause the BuilDroid image used here is built for tablets without phone capabilities (like sending an SMS, which MiTalk might want to do for verification). It is possible to download their apk packages from somewhere with the browser and install them in Buildroid 4.0.4 RC1.1 houdini anyway (after allowing installation form non-market sources in the settings), but for example the MiTalk application apk will not work past the login screen. Among them, WhatsApp (version ) and MiTalk Messenger (version 3.1.435). However, some apps still show this message in Google Play Market, for a reason unknown to me so far. However one has to fix several issues manually then which are already done in the VirtualBox-optimized BuilDroid build: getting the Internet connection to work (basically ifconfig, route, setprop commands on Android's console see here in section Networking), plus getting the Wifi connection to work because else, logging in to Google Play is impossible (fixed in BuilDroid using a second, virtual network device).īuildroid with houdini indeed can execute the NDK ARM apps (for example, Angrybirds, Facebook, Adobe Reader), for which the Google Play Market showed "your device isn't compatibel with this version" in other versions of Buildroid. It is also possible (in principle) to use a stock Android-x86 ISO image (I tried the 4.0.4 RC2 variant for eeePC) and install from that to a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox ( somewhat outdated instructions, more of these but with good tips). It might be that the graphics of this houdini variant are slower than without houdini if you need the speed, try the variant without houdini (see its announcement).
As a special feature, this variant also includes the ARM-code to x86 translation via the houdini libraries, making it possible to run native / NDK apps on x86 even though they contain binary ARM code without the x86 equivalent. The announcement for this can be found in BuilDroid: Running ARM apps, and there are some third-party installation instructions. It's a virtual appliance to be imported right into VirtualBox. The by far best and simple variant is to download Buildroid 4.0.4 RC1.1 version with Google Apps and Houdini.
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