Chinese Android smartphone for WebView development?

Question

Android

I'm making an application on WebView, simultaneously writing a lightweight framework for this business. Accordingly, we need support for remote debugging of HTML / JavaScript through the desktop with Google Chrome. Therefore, a smartphone needs at least KitKat (4.4), but for good, you need to immediately take something more modern on Lollipop (5.x).
I don’t have money for an expensive device right now, and if I spend a large amount, then in September on Nexus 7. Now I’m trying to pick up something from Chinese smartphones, in this regard I really liked the site www.kimovil.com/ru/compare-smartphone -prices After much research, I found two solutions www.kimovil.com/ru/where-to-buy-ulefone-paris and www.kimovil.com/ru/where-to-buy-xiaomi-redmi-3On w3bsit3-dns.com, they have a more or less normal community. Yes, and unlike other Chinese phones, these can be used for everyday tasks, and even if you donate to someone, it will not be a shame.
But since they have Chinese firmware (at least for XIAOMI), it is not clear whether WebView debugging on the desktop will work, as well as Google services? I'm interested in the purely Google TextToSpeech and SpeechToText. I read somewhere that since KitKat - SpeechToText can also work offline for simple commands (which is exactly what I need). Will it work (both online and offline) on the above Chinese smartphones with Lollipop?
Maybe you can take a frankly basement non-name and not lose it in development? Thus, ~$100 can be spent on two smartphones like VKWORLD VK6735. Take one on a brake chip, something from MediaTek Cortex-A7 - are smartphones based on such ancient chips popular now? And some modern Cortex-A53? Does it make sense to take such frank Chinese for development for my purposes?

Answer 1

Within $ 100 (and now it's 7k rubles, with kopecks) there are quite a lot of more or less decent phones on the Yandex.market (especially in comparison with these no-names).
Yes, and in which case you can at least sell such a phone (one of my acquaintances does this, buys a device, works, and then, when there is no need, he sells it). And the "outright Chinese" in the long run, most likely, will simply lie in your dead weight.

Answer 2

Lenovo A4000 fully supports debugging via desktop.

Answer 3

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