I am trying to test a website responsiveness to see if it works fine on Android devices, but I don't have an Android device. Is there a way to test website responsiveness on Android Studio? I have already tried resizing windows and all those websites that do that. What I want is a software that emulates the Android operating system. If yes, please share how. Thank you.
Yes, you can test a responsive website using Android Studio's emulator. Here are the steps to do this:
Download and install Android Studio - https://developer.android.com/studio/
Launch ADV Manager (Android Virtual Device Manager) within Android Studio and create a new virtual device
Click the play button to launch your app. Choose the device that you created in ADV
When the emulator opens, close the app that opens on the emulator and navigate to the web browser on the device. You should be able to test your website without issue now.
If you run into problems, make sure that you have all updates installed in Android Studio.
Here is a reference that you can use to get the emulator up and running: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator
Open a Chrome Browser -Right mouse click and select Inspect Element.
To the right of the tab Elements is a picture of a phone. Click That. Then you will see the browser resized.
Go to the top drop down menus on top to get some awesome choices.
Select one of the options from the Device drop down.
Then select one of the options from Network drop down.
Reload the page while doing a speed test from the far right tab.
Then you have a single user analysis of your app. For multi-user tests use JMeter.
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I use my mobile device to run my flutter applications. I know all about the hot reload but I'm so tired of having to wait every time I connect back to my phone again maybe the next day and then the app has to be re installed and the gradle task assembler has to be built again. Please I want to ask if there is a way to reconnect easily and a way for the apps to run easily again any time I want to work on a project again after a while.
There are a couple of alternatives to building the APK and installing it on a physical device:
Use an emulated android device
You can use an android emulator. The easiest way to set that up is probably the graphical interface in Android Studio (see https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds), but you can also use flutter emulators --create [--name <Name>] to create a new virtual device. Then use the button in the bottom right of VS Code to select that device, before launching the debugger.
Build for desktop
Depending on the dependencies of your app, you could try building the app for the platform you're developing on (Windows, Linux, or macOS). This has the same visual result as an Android app, but does not need an emulator or physical device. The rendering engine is the same (Skia) on all platforms. The obvious downside is that some plugins may not be available for desktop.
See https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/desktop on how to set that up.
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I'm a beginner developer and I use flutter, I wanted to download databases inside my app in the emulator within Android Studio.
But no matter where I search, I can't find the Device File Explorer in the android studio, the only thing I find about it is in settings and it's a completely blank page (there is only the path where to download things).
For Normal Android Development, it's easy. Just go to
View -> Tool Windows -> Device Manager
But in Flutter Development, it's a little bit tricky.
First you have to Configure your Android Development with Flutter to see the Device Manager option.
Steps:
Click on the bottom right option where it says Event Log and then Press Configure Now
Done!
No go to the same path again which was
View -> Tool Windows
and here you can see the Device Manager is visible now.
You can just use your real device to test and It will be better.
Just connect your mobile with usb to your computer.
turn on USB debugging in developer mode.
you will see a dialog box in mobile just allow and you are ready to use it.
Hope it will be helpful I suggest it coz once when I was trying my app in emulator it was working fine but when I have tested it on real device many things were not working and I have to start my project from scratch. So I suggest to test on real device and in addition you will easily get file explorer and more.
I'm new to the Android OS and I am having trouble interacting with a virtual device. I've installed the Android SDK + Java + Eclipse and I'm trying to get a virtual device running and debug an apk I have.
I create a AVD and start it up and get this basic screen below but none of the other Android OS options you'd see on a standard phone. I can't even really control this device as the buttons seem to have no effect. I can't get into settings or see default installed applications, etc..
What am I doing wrong? I'd expect to have a basic clean Android OS startup when I launch these virtual devices but I get this funky screen and can't do anything with it, controls don't seem to work.
Worth noting I am doing this from a VMWare Workstation running Windows 2012 R2, not sure if there are issues if I'm running this all in a VM.
UPDATE:
OK so it appears I was using the Android 4.4W which I think is for wearable devices and why the OS was basically empty. I changed it to Android 4.4.2 x86 by cloning a Nexus 5 and now I just get a blank screen when I try to start the emulator. Here is a screenshot, any ideas?
Update:
You are using Android Wear API target, please try with regular android API (L preview or API 19 or below). I was able to reproduce your issue if i used Android Wear Target, it works if i used non-wear target. Android wear target is for 'wear' device types.
When configuring the AVD, you can pick different "skins" , please see below highlighted in redbox
If you are using a custom (or vendor) defined device type, go into AVD Manager -> Device Definitions and double-click your device entry, it will open the below window, make sure Buttons tab says Software
You can also navigate the emulator UI with keyboard shortcuts, often quicker this way.**
A. Ashoke is right about using skins, you may choose a skin when you create or edit the emulator. Here is a screen-shot. Check the 'skin' dropdown. (It may not be available for some 'devices' you select here.
You are using VMWare, so you might be behind a proxy. You may need to provide proxy, using following steps -
Click on Menu
Click on Settings
Click on Wireless & Networks
Go to Mobile Networks
Go to Access Point Names
Here you will Telkila Internet, click on it.
In the Edit access point section, input the "proxy" and "port"
Also provide the Username and Password, rest of the fields leave them blank.
When you will load it for the first time, it may again ask for your credentials. So provide there as well.
I want to create AVD for KindleFire but I have some difficulties. According to every site I can find on the web regarding the problem, after performing these steps:
In eclipse go to Windows --> Android SDK Manager click to open it.
Then it will open the sdk manager then on the top two menus are listed one for Packages and other for Tools.
Then open the tools menu click Manage Add-on Sites. Click the User Defined Sites tab, and then click New.
In the Add Add-on Site URL dialog box, enter the following URL: http://kindle-sdk.s3.amazonaws.com/addon.xml Click OK, and then click Close. Wait for the Android SDK Manager to refresh.
I should be able to to choose and install Kindle Fire Device Definitions and then their images (see here for example: https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx3RZFBU0KJTSWS/Setting-up-the-ADB-driver-for-Kindle-Fire-Devices.html )
However, the only thing that is present on the list is Kindle Fire USB Driver.
I have installed many other packages hoping that they will maybe "unlock" the other downloads but nothing helps. Are the images no longer available? Or do I do something wrong?
They have dropped supporting emulators.
https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=479
scroll to the bottom for the great news. I guess you just have to deploy it to your device to test it out.
There is another option. Which won't work for things like the amazon mobile sdk, but anyway, you can create a device in the device manager and give it the same specs as the device you are targeting. This will at least give you some idea bout layout and such. It may help to do this.
I am using YouWave for Android in a remote desktop environment with Atrust Thin Client T60 series. When I run the YouWave emulator, a black screen appears and it stops there.
Also the home, menu and other buttons (except rotate button) does not work. When I tried to run an app it says
Android OS not ready.
When I open YouWave for a second time, it says
Another YouWave for Android is already running or previous run is cleaning up.
This repeats even if I tried to open waiting for few minutes. Is there any remedy for this?
A better alternative to YouWave or Bluestacks is GenyMotion
it is the fastest emulator ive ever used, everything works
to use it first visit the website, signup for an account then download the genymotion application. It works with Windows, Mac, Linux/Debian Linux.
After installing it, login using the signed up data & you will get a list of devices.
These are images of various physically available Android devices like nexus 7, nexus s etc. Download the desired device image.
These images are rooted & some with gapps, you can link the emulator to the android sdk for directly testing your app in the emulator. This emulator is so awesome that you can change the resolution of the device. you can add a shared folder using virtualbox, the shared folder is located # mnt/shared/
Try this and start again the YouWave
Go to Start > Run (or press Windows + R)
Copy and paste the bold text to the dialog box: %USERPROFILE%\.Virtualbox\HardDisks
Delete or rename youwave_vm01.vdi
Copy and rename youwave_vm01_golden.vdi to youwave_vm01.vdi
NOTE: youwave_vm01_golden.vdi is a clean Android instalation, keep a copy at all times.
I recommend you to use BlueStacks.
I am using it, and it's working all right, i was also having issues with YouWave.