<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Leo,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sending that link (<a href="https://mashtips.com/use-whatsapp-without-sim-phone-number">https://mashtips.com/use-whatsapp-without-sim-phone-number</a>), it had the idea of using the google voice number to activate WhatsApp, I tried it out using Android Studio as you suggested and it does work (at least for SMS text chatting, it didn't seem to be able to initiate a phone call).</div><div><br></div><div>The steps I used to get Android Studio installed on Debian 10 are pasted below, it was quite a long download.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Peter.</div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk</div><div>dpkg --add-architecture i386<br>apt-get update<br>apt-get install libstdc++6:i386 libgcc1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386</div><div>sudo apt -y install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon-system<br>sudo modprobe vhost_net<br>sudo apt -y install virt-top libguestfs-tools libosinfo-bin qemu-system virt-manager<br>sudo apt -y install cpu-checker<br>/usr/sbin/kvm-ok</div><div><br></div><div>Downloaded this file: android-studio-ide-191.6010548-linux.tar.gz</div><div>from <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio">https://developer.android.com/studio</a> (739MB !)</div><div><br></div><div>tar zxvf ~Downloads/android-studio-ide-191.6010548-linux.tar.gz</div><div><br></div><div>cat ~/android-studio/Install-Linux-tar.txt</div><div><br></div><div> cd ~/android-studio && ./studio.sh</div><div><br></div><div>Choose "Start a new Android Studio Project"</div><div><br></div><div>Click on the icon that looks like a vertical rectangular cellphone with<br>a green alien below in front of it: the tooltip is "AVD Manager". Set it up</div><div>like this:</div><div> Create Virtual Device<br> Pixel2<br> Click on Q (it downloads about 1GB more!)</div><div><br></div><div>Then launch the emulator by clicking in the "AVD Manager" on the "play" button (triangle),</div><div>which brings up a virtual smartphone. Don't switch between virtual desktops when using</div><div>the emulator, as it seems to mess up the mouse input (I get this strange line with two</div><div>circles connected to it, but input is no longer working). You can then install Android</div><div>applications as usual from the Google Play store, in particular WhatsApp can be</div><div>installed. It'll ask for a phone number, and you can give it your google voice number,</div><div>and it'll send an authorization code to your gmail account which you can then enter</div><div>to activate the WhatsApp software. Pretty convoluted, it's surprising they don't offer</div><div>any simple web interface for those who don't want to use a smartphone.<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:52 AM Leo P <<a href="mailto:yaconsult@gmail.com">yaconsult@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I did a search and came across this:</div><div><br></div><a href="https://mashtips.com/use-whatsapp-without-sim-phone-number/" target="_blank">https://mashtips.com/use-whatsapp-without-sim-phone-number/</a><br><div><br></div><div>Leo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:43 AM Leo P <<a href="mailto:yaconsult@gmail.com" target="_blank">yaconsult@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The Android Emulator is included with Android Studio.</div><div><br></div><div>SDK Tools release notes<br>Android SDK Tools is a component for the Android SDK. It includes the complete set of development and debugging tools for Android. It is included with Android Studio.<br></div><div><br></div><a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator" target="_blank">https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator</a><br><div><br></div><div>You can download Android Studio for all operating systems here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://developer.android.com/studio" target="_blank">https://developer.android.com/studio</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>While most Linux distributions will package some utilities for communication with android devices - android-tools in the case of fedora provides fastboot and adb - the android SDK comes directly from google and does include an emulator.</div><div><br></div><div>Leo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:40 AM Peter Knaggs <<a href="mailto:peter.knaggs@gmail.com" target="_blank">peter.knaggs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I was wondering does Debian have any emulator that could run an Android application such as Facebook's "WhatsApp" messenger? <br></div><div>I guess this might sound like a strange question, but given that I won't be buying any smartphone, but I do have internet access, I was wondering if emulation was a possibility.</div><div><br></div></div>
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