title: Android emulator ABI
body: <p>Preamble: THIS QUESTION IS WILDLY OBSOLETE.</p>
  
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  <p>When creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD), there's a selection for CPU/ABI. I've tried all available targets - there is no choice but ARM on all of them. I have targets up to Android 3.2.</p>
  
  <p>I'm assuming this was done for emulating tablets or netbooks on x86. Do those even exist in hardware? What kind of target would support a different ABI?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: in Android Tools v17, there's an optional Intel Atom x86 image under API level 10.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT2: ARMv7a is there now, too. No MIPS so far though.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT3: MIPS emulator and image is available now, too. Pending some new architecture (ARMv8? Intel flavors for non-Atom? x86_64? SH3/4?), this question is utterly pointless.</p>