Is it possible to run Android apps in JVM?

I am trying to run symbolic testing on Android apps to collect some information, for example, the execution tree. Thus I want to run it in JVM instead of the emulator because there are a lot of existing symbolic testing tools for Java applications.

I tried to run HelloAndroid which is a sample app outputting "Hello Android" on TextView by

java -cp ./ -cp $ANDROID_LIB/android.jar HelloAndroid.class

where HelloAndroid.class is compiled Java class before converting into .dex. But JVM is keeping complaining that

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloAndroid/class
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloAndroid.class

I am confu开发者_如何学Gosed because I've already specify the HelloAndroid class. And there is no complex statements or calls into Android library in the source code:

package com.example.helloandroid;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.widget.TextView;

public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        tv.setText("Hello, Android");
        setContentView(tv);
    }   
}

I am new to Android and am struggling to make this small app to execute in JVM. So would you please give me some suggestion? I am wondering if I am on the right way, I mean try to execute simple apps in JVM? Thanks!

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Android apps aren't compiled in the same that Java apps are. Android apps are complied down to .dex files, where as regular Java apps are complied to a jar file; neither are anywhere close to being compatible with each other.

The closest currently available thing to running Android apps on a PC is the Android emulator.

So to answer your question, no it is not possible to run Android apps in Oracle's JVM.