Questions tagged [android-emulator]
The emulator is a tool used by Android developers to test their applications or by power users to preliminary test behavior of devices without using a real Android device. Only use this tag for questions about the emulator in the second scenario.
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Can I run an Android emulator (with GUI) on a headless Linux server?
I have a hosted server that runs the Ubuntu server, and I was wondering if there was a way to run Android applications and get access to the Android GUI remotely, such as with a remote desktop. Also, ...
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Banking apps disabled in Android SDK emulator
Does the Android SDK emulator run apps with FLAG_SECURE used from Android 12? I have been trying to run different banking apps, which work but crash when I get to the login screen which is flagged ...
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Running ARM64 Android on ARM64
I have a Linux ARM64 computer (not phone). How can I use this to run an ARM64 Android phone image?
Android Studio does not work on ARM64 computers. Android Studio with emulator works on x86. I do not ...
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Shared folder on BlissOS 15 (Android 12L) based on 9p virtio in qemu
Using Qemu I managed to run BlissOS almost perfectly.
For the record this is my script to install and launch BlissOS with Qemu
(I use also an additional USB stick for storage to be able later on to ...
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Data transmitted via ADB makes emulator stopping
Recently, I was running the Visual Studio Android emulator and TCPView, and I saw that the emulator keeps stopping.
When I click "Wait", then some data is sent via adb to the emulator and ...
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Doorbell AnyHome app does not work on Android SDK Emulator
I am not used to Android Studio/SDK but try to use it for the first time to emulate an app (Doorbell AnyHome) on my laptop.
I succeeded to:
create an AVD (Pixel 4 API 32 -a12L)
download the app from ...
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Built AOSP, can't run emulator
Following the directions to build AOSP, everything seems to go fine.
I run:
. ./build/envsetup.sh
lunch sdk_phone_x86_64-userdebug
make
m
That seems to go fine.
Then the instructions say simply to ...
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How to run Starlink Android app on PC via emulator/VM?
Has anyone successfully run the Starlink Android app on a PC via an emulator or VM?
I know of accessing the web GUI of Starlink by URL with http://dishy.starlink.com/ or 192.168.100.1. However, a lot ...
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Issue with Android Emulator Directional pad Buttons looks
In the extended controls of android emulator, i have an issue with messed up graphics of Directional Pad buttons.
Does someone know what might be the issue here. Also, i was wondering if new buttons ...
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Get Android Emulator To Display/Render On A Dedicated Display
I have a phone sized external HDMI touch screen display.
Instead of the android emulator in a window on the desktop. I want to be able to display directly to that touch screen display.
A quick look ...
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Share Genymotion's Network with its host
Due to my peculiar circumstances in Iran with very restricted Internet access, I manage to find a way to connect to real Internet on my Android phone.
Now I want to run the solution on a Genymotion's ...
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VM acceleration is not working on another VM for Android Emulator
We want to run our instrumented tests on Gitlab. We've created a Linux runner(amd64,Ubuntu 22.04) to execute connectedAndroidTest gradle task. However we've come across some obstacles.
I have two ...
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I cant download a specific app on an emulator
So I am trying to download stockspile (trading app). First I thought that my problem was that internet so I used US proxy. But I keep getting the issue your device isnt compatible with this version.
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What is `NoxConsole` `list` command output meaning?
From Nox documentation we know that there is following command:
NoxConsole.exe list
It lists existing emulators and some data about them. Example output follows:
0,nox,Business,0,0,0,-1,-1
1,Nox_1,...
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Why does the emulator perform so many writes?
I'm using the Android Emulator from IntelliJ on Kubuntu. I noticed in plasma-systemmonitor that qemu-system-x86_64 continuously does on the order of a few MB/s of disk writes even as I'm not using the ...
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Looking fo hardware profile file [simulator] for tecno android devices - Android studio
Is there any links with avg hardware profile files for tecno android device [Android studio].
I need some test but I don't have this kind of device.
Maybe simulator can give me some info about my bugs....
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Connect laptop's webcam with new Genymotion
I noticed that the new version of Genymotion 3.3.x doesn't have anymore the (very useful) webcam activation feature. As I would just need that and I have no need to use more advanced features, is ...
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Disk size of Android Studio emulator increases over time
I installed the emulator Pixel 2 API 33 on my Android Studio. Initially it consumed about 8GB of my disk space, but it now emerges to 10GB. I reckon it will grow larger in the future.
Why does that ...
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Why can't I turn on Wi-Fi on the Waydroid emulator?
I just installed the Android emulator called Waydroid on Ubuntu 22.04. Almost everything seems to work as expected, except that I'm completely unable to turn on Wi-Fi usage. Whenever I toggle Wi-Fi on ...
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Is it possible to make Android Emulator appear as an USB device on my Linux machine?
I need to access both ADB and MTP from one emulated device. May be there is some ready-made solution that can emulate android device via usb device emulating?
All that I found is an android kernel ...
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"cannot add library libvulkan.so" when trying to start emulator
This is my first time attempting anything Android. I have installed Android Studio 2021.3.1 Patch 1 on Ubuntu 22.04 and created an Empty Compose Activity as a test.
The Device Manager looks like this
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No dating social apps in the Play Store?
I installed Android Studio for testing purposes and checked the Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X device images for the emulator. One thing I've noticed is that there are no dating social apps available in the ...
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Frame buffer not working in Android emulator when accessed from Linux
I am running Linux with kernel from Android SDK in an Android emulator. When writing from /dev/urandom to /dev/fb0, nothing is drawn in the emulator window.
Why? Can you help me with this problem?
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How to run bluestacks emulator in slow motion?
I can run bluestacks emulator fine, but for some games which require dodging, it would be easier if I had more time to think. That said, is there a feature that allows me to explicitly reduce the fps ...
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Android Emulator Performance is Extremely Unstable
First of all, hopefully this is the right place to post this type of question - if it isn't, do let me know.
I have a relatively new PC with 16 GB RAM, 10th Gen Core i3, 4 physical and 4 virtual cores ...
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Shortcut to switch to physical keyboard layouts
I use Android Emulator on MacBook Pro M1.
I have trouble with a physical keyboard which works in a very odd way as it doesn't change the layout with ctrl + space and any other combinations. So I need ...
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Which Android virtual device is based on ARM system image?
Android Studio has a feature where you can emulate an Android device -- tablet, phone, etc. -- but it crashes the virtual machine (Ubuntu) I am using. Depending on which VM platform I am using, it ...
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The calllog.db file remains the same even after changing
As you know on android call history in /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/calllog.db
path as sqlite file.
I change this file with adb push command then I will check on Dialer Call ...
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Hide an app on an AVD
I want to perform exploratory testing on an app my team is developing, and for this, I'd like to be able to manually hide and unhide apps on an AVD. Is there a way I can do this?
I observe that with ...
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emulator: ERROR: Can't get kernel version from the kernel image file
I want to start the emulator for the custom AOSP 12L build for arm64 using emulatorcommand. The AOSP source was downloaded from Sony's open device project for Xperia devices.
The command that I ran is ...
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Using Termux on an emulator isn't possible?
Can someone explain why isn't it possible to use Termux on an android emulator such as VMOS though it's able to fake root access? Is it just the limitation of the fake root that's provided by the ...
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Interaction Audioserver and application
There is a way in order to understand who is interacting with audioserver?For instance if there is an application that uses microphone, is there a way to understand if an interaction between ...
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gateway and dns in android
How to setup gateway and dns on android emulator correctly if my eth1 on emulator is connected to tap on host via:
emulator -dns-server 8.8.8.8 -selinux permissive -qemu -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=...
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How to install gapps on anbox for linux [duplicate]
I want to install gapps on Anbox. Below is a screenshot of Settings, about device.
I'm hoping to find out what version of gapps should be used.
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Run custom ROM on emulator/VM
Before I want to begin, I know this question has been asked, but I only found old answers or not really what I was looking for.
So, I want to build a custom ROM, and I'm sort of a beginner and I'm ...
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Android Emulator cellular speed limits does not work properly
I need to limit cellular speeds in Android Studio's Emulator. I tried to limit it from the default settings:
but it does not work. Each time I select anything lower than LTE I get like 0.01Mbps.
Any ...
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Send Physical keystrokes to the keyboard on emulator or real device
I need a way to press a key on an Android Keyboard ( irrespective of its language). For example, if the keyboard is in English and I press the "q" key it should type "q" but when ...
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How do I move a data file into an Android emulator application data folder?
I have a favorite Android app that saves its projects as name.ay files. I want to import such a file into an AVD running Android 11 so I can work on my PC (Fedora 35), but the app has no import ...
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Capture TLS handshake
I would like to capture TLS handshakes coming from Android. I was able to install a certificate using this instruction, then I started a server:
openssl s_server -key my_site.key -cert my_site.crt -...
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Which Android emulator supports utilizing connectivity of PC VPN?
I want to test an APK. I connect my PC with the company VPN. There are certain URLs that are accessible only when I connect to VPN. The android app which I want to test connects with those URLs. I ...
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How to change vendor.img contents with android emulator?
So, I have a custom AOSP image that I'm building, and it allows me to provide my own kernel and debugging features that I want (this is just for the record, because you can't do some things that are ...
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Magisk v23 with Android Studio
I am trying to install LSPosed [1], but it requires Magisk v23 [2]. I tried to
install Magisk v23 using the instruction here [3], but I get this result:
- Device platform: x86
- Installing: 23.0 (...
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Cold boot: snapshot failed to load
Sometimes I start Android Emulator with the GUI, and sometimes I start with the
CLI. If I keep using the same method, everything is fine, but if I switch
between methods, it causes problems. For ...
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Can android studio emulator run without `adb`?
I want to run android-studio emulator without having an adb.
On running the emulator It checks for the adb.exe using ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environment variable and exits if there is no valid one(valid one =...
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Does the Android SDK Emulator mount the filesystems on the host or emulate the mounting?
Does the Android Studio Emulator mount filesystems (like system.img and userdata-qemu.img) or emulate the mounting by making an illusion because I can't find them (the mounted filesystems) on the host ...
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How to PreRunning preloading pretesting custom/stock ROM in android virtual machine on mobile device
Question How to PreRunning preloading pretesting custom/stock ROM in android virtual machine on mobile device
I Have many custom android custom rom (android 6,7,8,9,10,11) availabale for my device ...
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How does the Android emulator emulate the RAM?
How does the Google Android emulator emulate the RAM?
Does it use the physical RAM of the host or use secondary memory like the hard disk?
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There is no emulator that can totally emulate an Android device?
Is it true that there is no Android emulator out there (as of May 2021) that can emulate an Android phone so that an app cannot detect it?
Of all the emulators out there (I saw a 15 best Android ...
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Show remote android emulator window in local
Hi I've configured Android development environment in a remote dedicated server running Ubuntu 20.04 with the help of the tutorial https://proandroiddev.com/how-to-setup-android-sdk-without-android-...
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AVD Pixel_XL_API_30, emulator process gets killed every time in Android
I just downloaded Android Studio's latest version being: 4.1.3 (18 March 2021) with the repository being: android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/adt/idea. The problem is that my AVD Manager is unable ...