I am completely new to Android Development and have got stuck at the very first point. I want to create a AVD for the Samsung Galaxy S2 but am not able to do so. I found many articles and questions on stack overflow like: Samsung Galaxy S II AVD (Android Virtual Device) Basic Settings? and others but they all pertain to previous versions. I tried to map them to this one but was not able to do so.
(For the above link, i got the result that unable to load device and it did not show up in device settings under AVD after i chenged the device.xml file)
Any help in this regard?
Thanks
Have no idea how but after complete un-install followed by reinstall all works fine. Also, i installed the latest version
I would suggest you to open the same link here!
I would suggest you some basic steps:
Go to Windo
Select =>AVD manager
Click on Device Defination
select New Device
Create new Devices (fill out)
Hit Create Device
Open the file C:\Users[user name].android\devices.xml in your favorite XML editor
follow step 6 of the link
follow step 1 to 3 of this list
select your device name (Samsung Galaxy II) in your case
close the AVD manager and follow the steps 8,9 and 10 from link.
I am only summarizing the points from the link and give you a quick heads up from the beginning in easy way:
hope it helps:)
for skin click here!!
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Is there a way to give an emulator a name in Android Studio?
In the emulator pull-down box in Android Studio, the emulators created from AVD manager are labelled simply: "Android SDK built for x86 (mobile)(emulator-nnnn)", where n is an integer.
If you're running multiple emulators, this isn't very helpful. Is there a way to rename each emulator to something more helpful? For example, when I created each emulator, they have names of e.g. "Pixel 4 API 29", and "Nexus 5 API 24" - why aren't these used?
Update: Two screenshots show what I mean. In the top one, the "Nexus 5 API" has been selected; yet it shows as "Android SDK etc". If I select e.g. "Pixel 4 etc", it shows as exactly the same (it actually has an emulator number added that only shows when you open the pull-down).
Of course you can edit the name of your AVD.
In the AVD Manager, clic on the pen to the right to edit your configuration and then, you can rename your AVD
Edit: There names are correctly shown in the pull-down menu, even if launched
Well what #Bruno said is the easiest way, if it does not work that way you can either try this one, is a little bit tricky though.
In case you use Mac that's an example of how to do it, if you do not use Mac let me know and I'll put the steps to do it on Windows / Linux
Open in Finder
user.name/.android/avd/
Pd: To be able to show the hidden files press ⌘ + ⇧ + .
Find your emulator, in my case I'll show this one :
Open the Pixel_4_API_30_-_Android_11.avd folder (in your case will be different) and open config.ini file and change these two params (AvdId,avd.ini.displayname)
And now restart your IDE and it should be updated.
I'm sure you could change more names, but to ensure the functionality of the emulator, I wouldn't touch too much if you do not know what you are changing.
Let me know if it works :)
You can not change the device name "emulator-nnnn" from Android Studio as that name belongs to the device. This is the name that you see in "adb devices" output.
For a real device, you have to change its name by opening the Settings app from the device.
For an emulator, in theory you can do the same, you open the Settings app inside the emulator when emulator is running. But I haven't tested this because my emulator is very slow.
I want to run my program on note and samsung j7 phones but i don't know how to create a note and j7 emulator for testing my application. I read below site but this site wrote in eclipse but my application is in Android Studio and in hardware profile, default skin part, i can't browse a new skin. Please if you know, help me.
http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000095
you can apply skin to emulator. step by step for it.
download skin file from here.
open tools--> android-->Android Virtual Device(AVD).
create new virtual Device.
select new Hardware Profile.
Default skin field choose folder that you download
click finish.
now hardware profile will show click next .
select Android api level And click next.
click finish.
Start Avd
I can't change the graphics to software as I'm sure this is the fix for my AVD not launching.
The option is greyed out (see screenshot). Has anyone has experience with this? I couldn't find anyone who had the same issue.
I'm running the latest version of Android Studio on Ubuntu 17.04.
Actually, this problem seems to be limited to devices with Play Store available, so Nexus 5X and Nexus 5 images will be forced to use Automatic Graphics, but all other devices allow you to choose either Automatic, Hardware or Software graphics.
edit: I've just tested this today and it seems to no longer be the case. At least on MacOS with Android Studio 3.3.2, I can now make a Nexus 5X image with Play Store and Hardware Graphics. I'll do more testing at home later, on Windows and Linux to see if it's related to OS or graphics drivers.
I also think it's related to whether the Playstore is contained or not, but I cannot explain why.
Dielson Sales already gave the answer which worked for me - unfortunately only in a comment to this answer. I just thought it's worth to make a "real" answer out of it:
Edit the config.ini file of the AVD. Under Linux it's located under /home/<user>/.android/avd/<AVD-name>/config.ini
(in my case <AVD-name> is Nexus_5X_API_29.avd).
In a text editor change the lines
hw.gpu.enabled=no
hw.gpu.mode=auto
either to
hw.gpu.enabled=no
hw.gpu.mode=off
or to
hw.gpu.enabled=yes
hw.gpu.mode=host
This setting remains even if opened in the Android Virtual Device Manager of Android Studio. It's just not editable there.
I also tried this, which I found in another AVD:
hw.gpu.enabled=yes
hw.gpu.mode=software
But this is then changed to "no" / "off" by the Android Virtual Device Manager.
I didn't look any further so far. hw.gpu.mode=off worked for me. Otherwise my whole Kubuntu hangs (using the Nouveau driver, not the NVidia driver)
Seems like the problem was with the choosen VM. If I choose a Nexus 4, it runs just fine.
I am little late on this thread but following are my findings and solution. I am using Ubunut 18.04 and faced the same issue. The solution is to edit AVD and under Emulated Performance, change the grpahics to Software. The problem was that this option was disabled for me. I was unable to change graphics drop down.
I did some more research and found that while creating AVD if you choose default/existing device definition on first screen, you will not be able to edit graphics drop down.
The solution is to create a "New Hardward Profile" while creating AVD and use your new profile. Now, you will be able to edit "Grahics" drop down.
Hope this helps....
It seems all emulators with Play Store cannot emulated performance. I am using AS 4.0
Open Android Virtual Device Manager Android Studio, change VMHeap to 512, RAM to 4096 MB. Then restart Android Studio.
I think It's just a bug!
Solved the issue by selecting any virtual device had the option enabled and after finishing the installation I just clicked on edit and reselected the device I wanted and the option was still enabled.
Click on edit button from here.
Then change the device to the one you want.
For those who are still searching for solutions on how to make it work with an image containing google play store: install / update your GPU drivers solves the problem. On my Ubuntu 20 this was the issue.
I'm working on mac os - after i upgrade my os my emulator stoped working and one of the solution was to change the graphic settings from hardware to software - since i couldn't - came here ---> turns out Android Emulator HAXM on macOS High Sierra is left out from security reasons
follow this link : https://developer.android.com/studio/known-issues#deploy
After searching a lot, I found out this link : http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/sdks/sony-add-on-sdk/install-the-sony-add-on-sdk/
Following the steps as per the instruction, I have created AVD for 1080x1920 screen resolution,i.e., Xperia Z. But still when I try to run this emulator, it display nothing but a blank screen, seems not working at all. Also checked the "Use Host GPU" option. But no result???? Can anyone please help me.
Thanks in advance
I also had this problem, then I found this solution.
I checked "Use host GPU emulation" option for avd. Also keep in mind that your system must have graphics card (GPU) installed in it.
use the following steps to make avd for s4 or any type:withe help of genymotion third party pulgin:
download first genymotion
https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/launchpad/download/
cmd for install genymotion
http://schier.co/post/install-genymotion-2.0-in-ubuntu
then:
The installation of the plugin can be done by launching Eclipse and going to "Help / Install New Software" menu, then just add a new Update Site with the following URL: http://plugins.genymotion.com/eclipse.
installing the google play service from the following :
http://blog.zeezonline.com/2013/11/install-google-play-on-genymotion-2-0/
Enjoy its working.
I'm driving to make a virtual machine for 7 inch tables but whatever I make tends to be a big screen that displays the layout like a phone. When I use the GUI designer with the 7 inch tablet option it lays out right and even displays good on a real 7 inch tablet, but on the emulator it shows up like a phone and does not layout correctly.
I see several questions on this but none have gotten rid of the phone layout issue.
How would I get this to work?
To get the official Samsung Galaxy Tab emulator do the following:
1) Open the Android SDK and AVD Manager
2) Click on Available packages
3) Expand the Third party Add-ons. There you will see Samsung Electronics add-ons.
4) Once the add-on is installed create a new emulator. Under Target you will see the new Samsung Tab settings, select that.
That's it!
That method did not work for me.
I looked up documentation on googles site to determine screensizes and that is what I used to create a tablet.