electron is such a good way to make applications that some people i know are using signal in the android emulator because it's faster
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With x86 android and VT-x enabled, I could see this being pretty competitive yeah. Does Signal have an x86 build for android?
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It's written in Java and shipped as dex bytecode but Android has full support for compiling that to native code. It can do full ahead-of-time compilation on the device. The default upstream configuration is to start with JIT compilation, with PGO AOT based on that done later on.
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Signal has native libs in its APKs: github.com/signalapp/Sign but it seems they do support x86(_64).
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Yeah, I know. It's a very small portion of the overall code though, with the exception of the Chromium WebRTC implementation which is quite large. They need to get a bit better at keeping that up-to-date on a regular basis too.
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Sure - but you can't just load an arch specific APK into the wrong arch emulator, which was my original question - does signal have (official) APKs that work on x86_64? and the answer is yes, they do, because even though it's not pure Java they chose to target that ABI.
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I interpreted it as being about performance, sorry.