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Android Studio + Genymotion Emulator

Nov 22 nd , 2013

The Android emulator is dog slow. The x86 intel emulators only work with certain versions of OSX, otherwise they crash miserably.

Genymotion is apparently pretty good, so I’m giving that a shot.

Here’s how to do it.

Download and Install VirtualBox

Download VirtualBox + follow instructions to install.

Signup with Genymotion + Download installer

Go to genymotion.com and signup

Click the “Get Genymotion” button and download the appropriate version for your OS.

Run the Genymotion application

It will install Genymotion and Genmotion shell — run the Genymotion application (not the shell).

When you run it, you will see:

Click add new virtual device. It will ask you to login, then show you a list:

Pick the virtual device you want and it will download it.

Try starting a virtual device

Here’s what happened on my system:

• Hit Play to run virtual device
• It asked me to configure the Android SDK location, I said “No”
• Then it gave me an error that VirtualBox was not installed
• I started VirtualBox manually
• I retried running the virtual device, this time it worked and I saw

Configure Android Studio plugin

Go to Preferences / Plugins and click “Browse Repositories”, then search for Genymotion. Right click and choose “Download and Install”.

Restart Android Studio and you should see a new icon in your IDE.

Click the icon and it will bring up Preferences, and choose the path to the Genymotion application.

Now if you click the Genymotion icon again, you will see the list of devices available:

Start an emulator

Click the Genymotion icon within Android studio, select a virtual device, and hit start.

It will ask you to choose the location of the SDK:

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:

Select a virtual device, and hit start (again). It should come up now.

Deploy an application/test to that emulator

In Android Studio, hit the “Play” or “Debug” button, and you should see the dialog that asks you to choose an emulator:

and one of the emulators will be the Genymotion emulator. After you choose that emulator and hit “OK”, it will run your application in the Genymotion emulator (this is showing the Grocery Sync demo app for Couchbase Lite):

Posted by Traun Leyden Nov 22 nd , 2013 android

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Android Genymotion for android Installing Genymotion, the free version

Example

Step 1 — installing VirtualBox

Download and install VirtualBox according to your operating system. , it is required to run Genymotion .

Step 2 — downloading Genymotion

Go to the Genymotion download page and download Genymotion according to your operating system.

Note: you will need to create a new account OR log-in with your account.

Step 3 — Installing Genymotion

if on Linux then refer to this answer, to install and run a .bin file.

Step 4 — Installing Genymotion ‘s emulators

• run Genymotion
• Press on the Add button (in top bar).
• Log-In with your account and you will be able to browse the available emulators.
• select and Install what you need.

Step 5 — Integrating genymotion with Android Studio

Genymotion , can be integrated with Android Studio via a plugin, here the steps to install it in Android Studio

• go to File/Settings (for Windows and Linux) or to Android Studio/Preferences (for Mac OS X)
• Select Plugins and click Browse Repositories.
• Right-click on Genymotion and click Download and install.

You should now be able to see the plugin icon, see this image

Note, you might want to display the toolbar by clicking View > Toolbar.

Step 6 — Running Genymotion from Android Studio

• go to File/Settings (for Windows and Linux) or to Android Studio/Preferences (for Mac OS X)
• go to Other Settings/Genymotion and add the path of Genymotion’s folder and apply your changes.

Now you should be able to run Genymotion’s emulator by pressing the plugin icon and selecting an installed emulator and then press start button!

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How To Install Genymotion Emulator and Add It’s Plugin To Android Studio

Genymotion is an Android Emulator which is way faster then Android Studio emulator. Genyotion emulator offers a wide range of virtual devices for development, test and demonstration purpose.

It has very simple user interface and you can directly use it from Android Studio by installing it’s plugin only once.

How to install Genymotion emulator and add it’s plugin to Android Studio

Step 1: First of all, you need to download Genymotion from the given link as per your Operating system: Download Genymotion from Here

Step 2: Scroll down the screen and you will find two tabs “Individual” and “Enterprise”. For free download you have to select Individual Tab.

Step 3: Under Individual select Basic section and hit “get started”. then click on “Download Genymotion Package”

Step 4: It will ask you to sign in. If you don’t have an account already then just click create account and fill a form.

Step 5: There will be two options: with Virtual box and without Virtual box. We recommend you to select: “With Virtual Box”(Because sometimes old Virtual box may not be compatible with the new Version of Genymotion)

Step 6: Once you get the dump of Genymotion, just double click on genymotion.exe file. Install Genymotion on your PC as you install any other software:

Step 7: You will find a rounded Genymotion icon on your desktop. Launch Genymotion by double clicking on it.

Step 8: Once Genymotion window is launched. It might ask you to sign in to Genymotion account.(With the same credentials which you used for account creation)

Step 9: If its already signed in then it will show your user name on left bottom of screen. Now you need to Click Add button to create an Emulator for android development.

Step 10: Sign In first and Select a device and click next. It will download your Android device.

Step 11: On other hand, Start Android Studio. Click File > Settings > Plugins

Step 12: In search option, write Genymotion. Just Install the plugin and click OK.

Step 13: You will have a Genymotion icon on task bar. Whenever you want to start any Genymotion Virtual device. Select it from list and just Click Start.

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How to Install GenyMotion – A Fast and Easy to Use Android Emulator with many Features

How to use GenyMotion as Android Emulator:

Ever felt that android emulator is slow? Ever felt that emulator is not not as good as Real Device? If so GenyMotion may be for you. GenyMotion is simply a Virtual Android Emulator but with more features and much more faster than Android Studio’s Emulator.

Advantages of Genymotion:

1. Its Faster to start, easier to use, resizable.
2. It has many options such as: Change Battery Level, GPS sensor, Gyroscope etc.

Steps to Install GenyMotion and Use it as Virtual Emulator for Android Studio:

Installation of Genymotion is simple. Here are the steps to install Genymotion:

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1. To download GenyMotion, visit the website and choose Free or Business Account. A free account is usually sufficient for personal use. However if you want to get more features you need a Business Account.
2. After you choose download, it will take you to another page showing a link called Get Genymotion.
3. Now Download the file and install it. It also prompts to install Oracle Virtualbox. Install it and complete the setup process.
4. You can additionally install Genymotion Plugin to start Genymotion’s emulator from Android.

Steps to Install Genymotion Plugin:

1. Go to File > Settings > Plugins.
2. Click on Browse Repositories.
3. Now Click on Genymotion and click Install Plugin.
4. Restart Android and you can now directly launch Genymotion by clicking the icon in Android Studio.

Creating a Virtual Device in Genymotion:

Creating a virtual device in Genymotion is very easy. You just have to just click on Add button on top of Genymotion window and choose any device listed below. Hit Next button and Click Finish after the required files are downloaded.

Now you can start your virtual device by selecting on the required device and clicking on Start Button.

Testing Android App on Genymotion:

1. To test android app on Genymotion, we launch the emulator using either Genymotion plugin or Genymotion.exe file and pressing Start button.
2. After the emulator is launched, we can test the app on android device by running the app as usual by launching the app by clicking Run Button.
3. Now You can see the Genymotion Emulator Displayed on the list as shown below. Now select it and hit Run.

Genymotion Virtual Emulator

Now you can successfully run your android App on Genymotion.

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Android Studio + Genymotion Emulator

Nov 22 nd , 2013

The Android emulator is dog slow. The x86 intel emulators only work with certain versions of OSX, otherwise they crash miserably.

Genymotion is apparently pretty good, so I’m giving that a shot.

Here’s how to do it.

Download and Install VirtualBox

Download VirtualBox + follow instructions to install.

Signup with Genymotion + Download installer

Go to genymotion.com and signup

Click the “Get Genymotion” button and download the appropriate version for your OS.

Run the Genymotion application

It will install Genymotion and Genmotion shell — run the Genymotion application (not the shell).

When you run it, you will see:

Click add new virtual device. It will ask you to login, then show you a list:

Pick the virtual device you want and it will download it.

Try starting a virtual device

Here’s what happened on my system:

• Hit Play to run virtual device
• It asked me to configure the Android SDK location, I said “No”
• Then it gave me an error that VirtualBox was not installed
• I started VirtualBox manually
• I retried running the virtual device, this time it worked and I saw

Configure Android Studio plugin

Go to Preferences / Plugins and click “Browse Repositories”, then search for Genymotion. Right click and choose “Download and Install”.

Restart Android Studio and you should see a new icon in your IDE.

Click the icon and it will bring up Preferences, and choose the path to the Genymotion application.

Now if you click the Genymotion icon again, you will see the list of devices available:

Start an emulator

Click the Genymotion icon within Android studio, select a virtual device, and hit start.

It will ask you to choose the location of the SDK:

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:

Select a virtual device, and hit start (again). It should come up now.

Deploy an application/test to that emulator

In Android Studio, hit the “Play” or “Debug” button, and you should see the dialog that asks you to choose an emulator:

and one of the emulators will be the Genymotion emulator. After you choose that emulator and hit “OK”, it will run your application in the Genymotion emulator (this is showing the Grocery Sync demo app for Couchbase Lite):

Posted by Traun Leyden Nov 22 nd , 2013 android

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About Me

Sr. Software engineer at Databricks — Apache Spark as a service for distributed analytics and machine learning. We’re hiring.

My contact info is listed on my GitHub profile

Follow me on twitter: @tleydn

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