I just started using genymotion and I really like it.
One thing that is frustrating me is that emulators take a lot of screen space and are contained within scrolling window.. which makes it less convenient to use
I tried to change screen resolution or look for some kind of option myself but with no luck
is there "scale to real device size" option like in sdk emulator?
UPDATE
when I start genymotion binary, get the following in the console
~/coding/genymotion$ sudo ./genymotion
Genymotion log file: /home/u238/.Genymobile/genymotion.log
Player log file: /home/u238/.Genymobile/genymotion-player.log
OpenGL connected to 192.168.56.101:25000
Port 22468 will be used for OpenGL data connections
The emulator shows up for about 5 sec.. black screen with white ui buttons on the right.. and then it disapears from screen
UPDATE
[facepalm] to solve the vanishing emulator just install graphic drivers supporting opengl 2
GenyMotion Virtual Device opens and disappears immediately
Ok I get it.
You're not running the Genymotion player but Virtual Box. Try to run the genymotion binary (the one where you downloaded the templates) and to launch your VMs from it directly. It brings a lot of improvements.
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My Genymotion is showing black screen i have try all the methode of configuration by configuring correctly my virtual box adapter so i don't know what's wrong again.
I had the same problem and in my case the problem was the graphics card.
Genymotion requires reasonably recent graphic cards. In my case, my laptop graphic card was running with the generic graphics drives by MS. I updated the graphics driver in Windows Control Panel, and right after that the emulator worked.
Here is the official support page that lists a few of the possible causes and remedies for black screen:
https://www.genymotion.com/faq/#virtual-device-window-empty
You need to check 4 different things:
proxy connections to be off( Gennymotion/setting/Network)
SDK be set( Gennymotion/ABD/SDK)
Graphic card driver be successfully installed
Virtual box installed and working correctly
Try again please. hope you will fix it easily.
I have a problem with my android emulator. It only shows a fraction of the screen.
Screenshot:
I have Android Studio version 3.0.
I tried a lot of things. I could fix the error when I use the emulator with Software emulated graphics but it is really slow.
know someone the solution?
thank you.
Make sure you have configured hardware acceleration correctly.
Disable the Device Frame by edit action.
Start the emulator and Go to Extended Control
Go to Settings and change OpenGLES render to Desktop native OpenGL
Restart Emulator and Resize the Emulator Window.
I made an android project in android studio & test it in real device it works fine but now i have not real device with me & want to run the project in Emulator. I install the AVD & intelhaxm-android.exe from the directory
C:\Users\INZI\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager
after that I created Virtual Device to test the app but when I run this it shows black screen with android printed in the centre of the device but does not show the home screen. I tried it with the
Visualization technology Enabled in BIOS setting. what should I do now I waited about more than a half of the hour but its same.
Please help
Thank you in advance
I resolved the mentioned problem Emulator was not showing the home screen because
I have more size of virtual Device than Haxm
I haven't completely downloaded the API with which I was testing.
Now I set less size of Virtual Device & test the app with the lower API that I fully downloaded .... now its working fine.
If I were you, I would try Genymotion which is a much smoother emulator than the default. Furthermore, you will not run into any problems while setting it up as the program handles everything for you. Of course, as you become more experienced, you will want to debug your apps on a real device but as you do not have access to one, Genymotion is your best option.
When I open the android emulator, it stays on a black screen.
The app I'm testing is small and basic.
I have the arm* type downloaded, and I set it to 300 RAM, but still nothing.
Emulator have many issue if you want good & fast emulator then uses genymotion Download from link https://www.genymotion.com/#!/. you will get different type of device and fast devices then emulator.
I have used Eclipse to write apps for android multiple times without issue but I am now trying the new Android Studio which I like but here is my problem.
When I run the app I pick my AVD and then tell it to start. The emulator starts loading and then says paired. Then it starts telling me to swipe up and left and right to display and remove cards. Then it says to put hand on screen to dim the screen, ok well I'm on a MacBook Pro so that don't work I swipe to get past that part sometime I can others I can't. Next it says to touch the clock and say some words which also can't do on my Mac, and that is where the emulator stay it never goes to a home screen and it does this no matter what AVD I choose. How can I get the Emulator to just plain open to the home screen like it should.
Thanks for any help.
In your AVD Manager, edit your AVD and make sure your Target is "Android L" and not "Android X.XW". The "W" stands for "wear" and that is causing your issue.
Alright I figured it out. I remember having a similar problem recently when I was taking an android development class for college using eclipse and sure enough that was it.
So here was the solution eclipse gave same problem. for some reason if you have caught exemptions such as hard coding a string etc. the emulator will not run till you ignore these exemptions or fix every last ! mark in your code. Once you do this the emulator will load and run properly.
I also had the same problem with my AVD. The Android Emulator window just used to pop us and the green bars flowed infinitely. After lots of trial and error I arrived at a solution for my problem. the problem was with the Heap size and the RAM size.
Initially the default heap size was 128 MB and RAM was 1563 , I just changed the heap size to 512 MB and reduced the RAM size( high RAM was making my PC run slow) also I enabled hardware acceleration. And Yipeee, it worked.