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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Android Wear emulator: "No longer connected to network"
I've been using a Android Wear 1.4 (Android 6.0.1) emulator for some time, and the following notification has appeared out of the blue:
No longer connected to network, a factory reset is required.
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How to tilt Google Maps in an emulator?
I am using the emulators (AVD) by Google to run an application which contains a Google Map Activity? On a real device I can use two fingers to tilt the map and see 3d buildings in certain zoom levels -...
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Play store on AVD
Is it possible to install the play store and download apps on an AVD (Android Virtual Device, aka Emulator)? I can't seem to find an image or anything documents on it.
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How can I run the Android emulator together with another VM?
Whenever I open an Android emulator when a different kind of VM is already running, I get the "usual" error messages:
emulator: Failed to sync vcpu reg
emulator: Failed to sync HAX vcpu context
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Can't use chmod to alter permissions on emulated phone
So, I'm trying to make an app in android studio and I need to reference a particular file in the app, cascade.xml. I've pushed it onto the emulated phone no problem using adb (it's in the storage/...
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Speed up Android SDK Emulator
I recently installed Android SDK (not Android Studio or Eclipse) to emulate an Android Watch. I downloaded the ARM images and the Android Support Library. Everything goes fine, except that it is ...
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BlueStacks 2 WIFI MAC Address
How do I change BlueStacks 2 WIFI MAC Address to a specific WIFI MAC Address. For example I want to specifically change it to 11:22:33:44:55:66?
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How to install Google Play services on an Android 6.0 emulator?
Is there a way to install Google Play app on an Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) AVD?
I have found the Open Gapps for Android 6 here:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24269982087008996
To install them ...
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Android studio emulator start without response
So I am new to android developer, the AS start first for the default 6.0sdk, emilator runs well but after I download the 4.0.3sdk and the exact emulator, the emulator crashed while starting, the ...
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Android Emulator not starting
Using Ubuntu 15.10 I am not able to emulate an Android device using any x86 images.
The emulator starts but the screen stays black. Using an ARM image works.
From what I found it seems to be ...
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Running a stock or custom ROM in a virtual machine on Android⠀
Can I run a virtual Android machine on my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge? Or maybe can I run a custom ROM without flashing stock?
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Does an Android Emulator exist which works with every possible app?
I'd like to install a specific free android app, which works under different Android smartphones (minimal requirements of Android 4.0):
The freely available app is called PostCard Creator and useful ...
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Use image file as camera
I need to use an image file instead of a camera for Android apps that want you to use a camera app to take a photo (for example, Google Drive scanner). I don't need to use apps that use the camera ...
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Android AVD throws errors, such as "Failed to sync vcpu reg"
How do I fix “Failed to sync vcpu reg” error? does not help. I tried all the solutions I could for Mac on the post but none worked.
I started a new project and tried to run the emulator, but I get ...
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How to rotate emulator screen (not device orientation)?
Some apps run in landscape orientation, but sometimes allow you to see some picture in higher resolution by displaying it as portrait-oriented full screen image. Those are mostly games that allow you ...
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How to change the Android emulator phone number
Is it possible to change the phone number of mine on the android emulator, just like Genymotion which is always show me 1-555-521-xxx number. any ideas would be nice and appreciated.
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Android Studio: how long does it take for emulator to start first time?
Have been waiting for over 30 mins now for start for first time.
Its stuck at loading. Should I give up after 40 mins? Looking into installing Genymotion now.
Installed all sdk, jdk, emulator ...
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Terminal for android
I'm still learning how to use the terminal. I know the dangers of fiddling with it. But I want to use the terminal emulator app to navigate my phone(messaging, camera, launch applications, etc) from ...
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How to transfer apps from an emulator to another one, on my PC?
I tried to transfer my apps that I already downloaded using blue stacks to another emulator that's Droid4x, but I can't find my apps in form of ".apk".
How to transfer the apps?
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Does Andy emulator respond to computer keyboard while playing Android games?
I'm using Windows 8 Pro in Dell laptop. I want to know, is there a way to assign the computer keyboard to the Android games? Screen tapping by the mouse is not enough to have the full control in the ...
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GNU Utils in Android Emulator
Can we install GNU utils on Android emulator?
Depending on emulator's platform (x86, x86_64, arm64, armabi, etc), can one install corresponding GNU utils build? I mostly interested in vim on emulator....
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Restore an Android Backup to an Android Emulator
Is it possible to backup my phone, and restore it to my computer to run under and android emulator? If so, how would I go about doing that?
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ADB - Android emulator - Unable to record video - screenrecord not found with Android 5.11
I installed android emulator, the SDK Tools v24.1.2, Android v5.1.1.
After all this the emulator is UP and I am able to run my app.
Where I ran into problem was while trying to do a screenrecord ...
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How to start AVD emulator without device frame
When starting avd emulator, there is phone device like border around the emulator. How can I start emulator without that frame? It's taking too much screen space.
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Mounting USB in android 4.1.2
I am trying to mount USB pen drive in my old Xperia phone running Android 4.1.2 When I connect OTG device to my phone I get an USB power consumption error.
After little search I found a command to ...
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Notification remain on home screen
I am using GFive Presdent Tango 7. Its showing notifications Like "Viber is denied to read sms" and "android.google.setting denied to read location".These notification appear on screen one by one .. ...
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"not executable: magic 7F45" when running redsocks on Android emulator
I'm trying to get ProxyDroid or redsocks to run on the Genymotion Android emulator (x86). ADB shell into the device, run redsocks and I get not executable: magic 7F45.
I know it means that the version ...
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Chrome on Intel Atom x86 image on AVD
Is there any way I can install Chrome on my Lollipop x86 image. I tried installing it via ADB, but I get an INSTALL FAILED NO ABIS error. I was able to get ES File Explorer to load and I pushed chrome....
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Android AVD not displaying appropriate scale
How do I fix the display on my android AVD? The UI is completely out of whack. I'm using the following command line options to launch the AVD, but nothing I do within the 'scale' and 'dpi-device' ...
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Add applications to the original Android ROM
How can I add applications to the original Android ROM installed by manufacturer, and not lose them after a factory reset?
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ADB over TCPIP connects, but no command works after connection has been done
I'm developing an Android app.
The so-called app is being developed inside a Windows 7 Pro X64 VirtualBox machine which has a bridged connection with the host machine (a Windows 8.1 Pro X64).
In the ...
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Problem with Android Emulator on Android Studio. HAXM Kernel Module not Installed [duplicate]
I recently switched over from Eclipse ADT to Android Studio and as soon as I tried to fire up the emulator, I saw the following message:
emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware ...
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Google-cast to Android TV emulator
I was wondering if I can use the Android TV emulator (available from Android SDK) as a Chromecast emulator.
Android TV devices (like the Nexus Player) are Google Cast targets. I was assuming that the ...
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Check if emulator is using kvm in android studio
I have followed all the instructions from here and here for enabling kvm for android studio to enable vm acceleration.
Still I suspect that when I start android studio it isn't using kvm because on ...
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Is there a way to set ro.kernel.qemu to 0 in a emulator?
I replaced a modified build.prop which contains ro.kernel.qemu=0 to the system.img with yaffey, but it did not work. When the emulator restarted, ro.kernel.qemu=1 still exists in the output of adb ...
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Android simulator on Eclipse eats HD
I've found that the Android simulator in Eclipse eats up my hard drive. I use an app to monitor my hard drive use, and I've found that when I start it up, it uses about 150MB of space on my hard ...
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dlopen failed: library "/system/lib/libhoudini.so" not found [closed]
My Android game is built with cocos2dx 3.0, and it works well on my Nexus 5. However, my friends who have Galaxy S4 says the game crashes when opening.
Edit: tested with more devices. Works on Nexus ...
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Installing web browser in Android Wear Emulator
How can we install a web browser like Chrome / others in an emulator of Android Wear?
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Which Android emulators can co-exists on single machine?
Which emulators can co-exists on single Windows machine and be used simultaneously for app development (adb support)? I'm using Genymotion which seems to work on bare system; AVD x86_64 requires Intel ...
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How can I run Android applications on my computer?
Is there any method for using Android applications on a computer, because I found this tutorial but my laptop just has 1 GB of RAM and works very hard. I want to use WeChat on my PC because I like it ...
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Problems with starting the emulator in Windows
I started a project of developing a rather simple app, and it was working with the emulator, although it was taking time to start the first time. But now, for some reason, I cannot have the emulator ...
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Image a phone and browse on computer emulator?
I have a galaxy nexus (stock OS). During its use I have used WeChat and WhatsApp, and would like to save my chat and voice histories within these programs.
Does a way exist to image my current phone ...
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How to install app in playstore without Google playstore in android emulator
I had installed AndroVM to use Android apps in computer. But when it comes to games like shadow fight even with OpenGL support enabled, AndroVM couldn't run many games such as Hill Climb racing, ...
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Modifying android system apps
Does anyone know a good articles or tutorials explaining how to go about it?
Do I need to recompile android sources after modifying system apps and then install them on my emulator device somehow?
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CyanogenMod emulation [closed]
The device is Samsung i9100. I have downloaded the latest AndroidStudio and going to modify
or create an addon for AOSP contact app.
The system itself is present on the website https://download....
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how to adb wait-for-device until the home screen shows up?
I need to unlock my screen using adb, and wait-for-device exits way too early(when the device is booting up), and screen unlock fails. Is there a way to detect that the home screen, so I can fire ...
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Boot Android Virtual Device into recovery mode
I am trying to install the Google Applications packages on an Android virtual device (emulator), and one of the steps requires me to be in recovery mode.
I tried adb reboot recovery, adb reboot ...
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optimum hardware setup for android emulator?
is there a "best" setup for the android emulator? It runs terribly slow on my mac os as well as my windows 7 32-bit. I was just wondering if there's an optimal setup as far as 32-bit vs 64 bit, or ...
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Special characters through my PC keyboard don't work in Genymotion emulator
I use Genymotion emulator version 2.2 to run android version 4.3. It is on Ubuntu 14.04. Typing with my keyboard works, but not for special non-asci characters like ščřžáíéúů. Pasting them works. I ...
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Connect physical Android Wear watch to emulated phone
I have found many tutorials that explain how to pair an emulated Android Wear watch to a physical phone. However, I would like to do the opposite. Is it possible to create a Bluetooth connection from ...
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