Genymotion is a relatively fast Android emulator which comes with pre-configured Android (x86 with OpenGL hardware acceleration) images, suitable for application testing. The project has evolved from the old BuildDroid project, then AndroVM, and comes with a new player design, installer and more.
Genymotion is a relatively fast Android emulator which comes with pre-configured Android (x86 with OpenGL hardware acceleration) images, suitable for application testing. The project has evolved from the old AndroidVM and comes with a new player design and installer.
Genymotion features:
- Easily download and run pre-configured virtual images: covering a range of Android versions from 2.x onwards, and various phone and tablet screen sizes.
- Networking: Ethernet (emulates Wi-Fi connection)
- GPS (with configurable coordinates) and battery (with configurable battery levels) emulation widgets.
- Display: OpenGL hardware acceleration, multiscreen, full screen display
- Genymotion shell which allows you to interact with your VM using a command line
- ADB support
- Eclipse and Android Studio plugins
- Supports Linux, Windows and Mac.
- "Drag&Drop" APK installs
- "Drag&Drop" ZIP support for system updates/patches
Version 2:
- No longer includes Google Apps (Play Store, etc.)
- (Workaround) - https://stackoverflow.com/a/19960729
- (Workaround) - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528952
- No ARM library support
- (Workaround) - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528952
