Help Using an Executable file on Motorola Phone?

[Lana30]

I you put together a small program using MS Access. Basically it just displays stuff from a table record by record and then you turn it into an executable file and then want to use it on your Motorola android phone. Is this possible?

 

[mikedt]

Is it a Windows .exe program? To run that you basically need desktop Windows running on an x86 PC system. Which Android on a Motorola phone is not of course.

There was a project to port WINE to Android, but that seems to have died. WINE is intended to run Windows .exe applications on *NIX OSs.

 

[Lana30]

Is it a Windows .exe program? To run that you basically need desktop Windows running on an x86 PC system. Which Android on a Motorola phone is not of course.

There was a project to port WINE to Android, but that seems to have died. WINE is intended to run Windows .exe applications on *NIX OSs.

Hi, I have heard of phones that run Windows, I think. Would it work on one of them?

 

[Hadron]

Windows Phone is not the same as Windows for a PC, whatever impression the marketing people might give. I'm sure that an executable compiled for a PC will not run on a Windows phone (different OS and different computer architecture).

 

[Lana30]

Windows Phone is not the same as Windows for a PC, whatever impression the marketing people might give. I'm sure that an executable compiled for a PC will not run on a Windows phone (different OS and different computer architecture).

Thanks for your answer. I appreciate it. Can I ask you something else? Are Cheetah Mobiles apps bad? I heard that one should stay away from those kind of apps, are they really that bad and why?

 

[Hadron]

Cheetah Mobile's main business is your data. You value your privacy, don't like spam, then don't install anything from CM.

Also they have used the same techniques that malware pushers use to increase the installations of their apps (which makes the fact that they push a "security" app more than a little ironic).

That's without going into the fact that apps like task killers, ram optimisers, battery doctors (i.e. some of their main apps) are not only unnecessary on Android but actively counter-productive.

Bottom line: I would not install anything from that outfit.

 

[Lana30]

Cheetah Mobile's main business is your data. You value your privacy, don't like spam, then don't install anything from CM.

Also they have used the same techniques that malware pushers use to increase the installations of their apps (which makes the fact that they push a "security" app more than a little ironic).

That's without going into the fact that apps like task killers, ram optimisers, battery doctors (i.e. some of their main apps) are not only unnecessary on Android but actively counter-productive.

Bottom line: I would not install anything from that outfit.

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Hadron]

The first post of this thread has a few links if you want more. But yeah, just avoid.