What do I look for when I select the best Android emulation software? Here’s a summary of my evaluation criteria: I have also flagged, where applicable, which Android emulators are compatible with Mac, Linux, and others. And as many of the QA folks in our quality engineering community are aware, emulators can be a great way to quickly test and QA an app. They’re becoming more popular as Android’s popularity keeps growing.
In Android Studio, hit the “Play” or “Debug” button, and you should see the dialog that asks you to choose an emulator:Īnd one of the emulators will be the Genymotion emulator.So you want Android to work on your PC? You need an Android Emulator. Deploy an application/test to that emulator
Select a virtual device, and hit start (again). On Mac OSX, I was not able to brows to the path since the application was greyed out in the chooser dialog, so I went onto the shell and found it (/Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk) and just copied and pasted it: It will ask you to choose the location of the SDK: Now if you click the Genymotion icon again, you will see the list of devices available:Ĭlick the Genymotion icon within Android studio, select a virtual device, and hit start. Restart Android Studio and you should see a new icon in your IDE.Ĭlick the icon and it will bring up Preferences, and choose the path to the Genymotion application. Right click and choose “Download and Install”. Go to Preferences / Plugins and click “Browse Repositories”, then search for Genymotion.
It will install Genymotion and Genmotion shell - run the Genymotion application (not the shell).Ĭlick add new virtual device. Signup with Genymotion + Download installerĬlick the “Get Genymotion” button and download the appropriate version for your OS.
Download and Install VirtualBoxĭownload VirtualBox + follow instructions to install. Genymotion is apparently pretty good, so I’m giving that a shot. The x86 intel emulators only work with certain versions of OSX, otherwise they crash miserably.
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