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How to check the current platform of Android OS?
If you have adb set up, it's a one-liner at the shell prompt:
$ adb shell "getprop ro.product.cpu.abi"
arm64-v8a
In this example, the device asked answered that it has a 64bit ARM V8a CPU (second ...
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Does an Android Emulator exist which works with every possible app?
This can happen for the following reasons:
The emulator presents an x86/MIPS CPU which the app does not support (probably not in your case as the app doesn't seem to require native code).
Google ...
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How to gain root on BlueStacks Android emulator
These instructions require that you understand the UNIX command line basics. The instructions work on OSX, Linux and Windows. No Microsoft Windows or BlueStacks Tweaker needed.
The emulator is ...
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How to check the current platform of Android OS?
CPU -Z is a versatile app that gives you SoC information apart from some other apps
From app description on play store
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The emulator process for AVD Nexus_5X_API_22 was killed
Go to: Tools > Android > AVD Manager
Press the "edit" (pencil) icon next to your AVD
Change "Graphics" to "Software".
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Can a Terminal Emulator on android do everything that a terminal on linux or mac does?
Not really.... they are no more limited than the tools that Android has installed, remember that Android is not Linux, it is based on it but it's command line interface is very limited by comparison ...
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How to bypass an app's ability to know is being run on an emulator rather than a real device.
In general there are three ways to bypass an emulator check:
Modify the app and remove the emulator check.
Modify the emulator so that it pretends to be a real device.
Modify the system calls the app ...
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Running Android on a PC as a nondeveloper, just to run apps
Yes, Bluestacks is the best option for your needs. Particularly suitable for game players, you can run any app on it. No need to download any extra; after downloading Bluestacks on your PC, just log ...
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How to do ADB over 'wifi' (actually in the same PC) for emulated device
I forgot that adb daemon binds to localhost, and I was trying to access from 192.168.122.x.
With socat I was able to redirect the ADB client from my VM to the ADB daemon on my host machine which made ...
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Feed an image to Genymotion Camera
I failed to get this working on Ubuntu 18.04. Here's what I found:
The Ubuntu repos contain a program called Webcamoid which can create a virtual camera that uses your desktops as the camera input.
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What is ARM Translation tools?
This library is part of Intel's Houdini project where ARM native code runs on Intel x86 using an emulation feature named Houdini (see libhoudini Archives). This library basically maps ARM to x86 CPU ...
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App doesn't show on emulator playstore
The Play Store enabled emulator images are x86 images so they can be executed faster on an Intel/AMD CPU. Physical smartphones at the moment all use ARM CPUs (armv8a 64 bit to be precise).
If an app ...
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There is no emulator that can totally emulate an Android device?
You are talking about an Android device, there may be 100.000 small differences between real and emulated devices. Even eliminating all those differences that can be "fixed" requires quite ...
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Android AVD not displaying appropriate scale
I don't launch from the command line, but this question came up while I was trying to solve a similar problem.
I eventually solved it by replacing the hw.lcd.density value in the .android/avd/<...
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is there a cardboard/VR emulator available?
Just run the app. The Google Cardboard is just a way of attaching the lenses and phone to your face. The phone doesn't know whether it's in the headset or not. The app just displays the two views on ...
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LG android phone emulator
Nexus 5 (LG D820) emulator images are readily available from Android Studio.
Tools--> Android--> AVD Manager --> Nexus 5
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Run windows 10 ARM on QEMU
I think you must compile qemu-system=aarch64 by yourself, but go into the /arm folder of the source code. You have to go in the file virt.c and modify line has_el3=false to has_el3=true.
Microsoft ...
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INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS on Android 9
Even though Google states that this works for the Android 9 and 10 images as well from my experience it works only for the Android 11 preview images.
I have tested this on Windows using the latest ...
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What is `NoxConsole` `list` command output meaning?
Thanks to the link provided by Andrew T. from Yeshen FAQ, and after some my own research, I can write the description of the NoxConsole list output columns:
The device index. You can use the index ...
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Is it possible to install windows in android tablets?
This article explains how to install Windows on an Android tablet. But as it stresses, the app and methods are unsupported, so if something happens to your device, then you are on your own.
From the ...
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Running Android on a PC as a nondeveloper, just to run apps
For non-commercial uses Genymotion is a great candidate. It is free for personal usage. It supports GApps (Google apps i.e Playstore, Gmail etc). It is also quite faster than the Google's stock ...
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How to download and emulate the official android x86 image from Android Studio?
If I understand correctly what you want achieve, this has been documented pretty well on SE sister sites:
Firstly assuming you have successfully installed Android studio, it needs the following files ...
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Feed an image to Genymotion Camera
I made it work using the 2010 Manycam version 2.6.1, since Manycam latest version has restrictions.
As you can note when scanning it (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/...
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The emulator process for AVD Nexus_5X_API_22 was killed
The same happened to me, in other places I read that is a problem with the library shipped with the SDK.
The following line worked for me
$ android-sdk/tools/emulator -avd Nexus_5_API_27 -use-system-...
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The emulator process for AVD Nexus_5X_API_22 was killed
emulator: ERROR: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, use '-gpu off' to disable it.
The emulator wasn't able to use OpenGL ES emulation on your PC. As the message says, you can disable it using ...
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Rotate screen on HyperV
First you need to make sure you install and configure Hyper-V accurately.
1. How to install Hyper-V?
2. How to configure Hyper-V?
After checking that you need to follow these steps.
3.I also ...
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Emulator not responding. How to troubleshoot?
Maybe you can try to use an emulator snapshot.To use a snapshot with your device, open the AVD manager from the Android Studio menu by selecting Tools→Android→AVD Manager, edit the AVD by clicking on ...
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Emulator not responding. How to troubleshoot?
the reason is your haxm is not working is that, that your AVD and HAXM both must be configured to use same amount of memory(not sure if lower memory in avd will work).
you can change HAXM memory by ...
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Does an Android Emulator exist which works with every possible app?
Google recently released an ARC Welder Chrome app, which allows you to run Android apps if you’re on Chrome OS, or using the Chrome web browser.
Look at this Getting Started guide.
How to Use Google’...
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