Setup Information Emulator Setup Ben's Findings - rosielab/pepper-documentation GitHub Wiki

NOTE: Everything tried here was on a M1 Mac (ARM cpu)

  1. Install Android Studio Bumblebee | 2021.1.1 Patch 3 from this link here:

    a. https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

    b. This is bc this is the latest version that is said to be supported by the Pepper SDK: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8354-pepper-sdk

  2. Follow the setup instructions for Android Studio found here:

    a. https://qisdk.softbankrobotics.com/sdk/doc/pepper-sdk/ch1_gettingstarted/installation.html

  3. Follow the instructions to create a new project here:

    a. https://qisdk.softbankrobotics.com/sdk/doc/pepper-sdk/ch1_gettingstarted/starting_project.html

  4. Attempt to run the Pepper Emulator:

    a. This is where it broke. The emulator would fail citing that it could not find the qemu-i368 file in the emulator/qemu directory.

    b. Looking into this issue it seems like the ARM versions of the emulator do not contain this file. This seems to tell me that the Pepper SDK Emulator is not meant to support an ARM emulator. ๐Ÿ™

    c. You can see the difference between the ARM version of the emulator and the x86 version of the emulator by downloading both from this link and then opening the qemu file. One contains qemi-i368 and the other does not.

    i. https://developer.android.com/studio/emulator_archive

  5. Conclusion: I donโ€™t think the Pepper SDK supports M1 chips. I will now be trying to install the environment on a personal Windows computer.