Over the following weeks, Iris and I gathered others: a GPS widget that still thought the Berlin Wall existed, a music player that only played the first three seconds of every song, a weather app that forecast rain using a 2012 API that no longer worked. They were all flawed, all broken, but they were alive .

emulator -avd ICS_Emulator -dns-server 8.8.8.8

Much faster than AVD, GPU acceleration out of the box. Cons: Requires hunting for an old installer; no longer maintained; potential security risks.