Testing Android browser without the emulator?

Question

I'm working on a javascript framework that generates webkit browser pages which emulate a native app for Android & iPhone.

I'm using an iPhone emulator (iBBPhone -- very nice) to see how my pages would look on the iPhone and iPad. I was curious if there was something besides the Android SDK phone emulator that would simulate the Android browsing experience. I'm using desktop Google Chrome right now as a "pretend Android" browser but I'm not sure how alike they really are.

The Android emulator that ships with the SDK is a bit too slow to fire up on my box to be of great use in what I'm doing (even when starting up a saved image), and I was curious if there was anything else out there that simulates Android browsing. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think this Firefox plugin will let you display the site as it would show up in several different types of browsers. I know it supports iPhone so I imagine it will do Android as well. This page also talks about some other Firefox plug-ins that may be useful to you.

Answer 2

Chrome has a nice add-on named Ripple that does the job nicely I've found. http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/

Answer 3

These guys pretend to meet this need. Might be a good idea to check it out.

http://www.browserstack.com/mobile-browser-emulator