We are trying to test our mobile web site on various Android simulators as we can't buy them all. We need to test it for Android Firefox as a requirement from the customer.
How can we install Mobile Firefox onto a Emulator?
So according to this site, if you have a device without Android Market (i.e. your emulator), you can download it directly from their FTP server:
http://bit.ly/fennecftp
Of course you'll have to update it yourself, but for testing it should be fine. Then install it like any other apk file (example).
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I am making my first developer steps on Android.
Trying my first test app on an Android Virtual Device (AVD), I noticed that the device has almost no software on it, there is no Play Store and no Chrome Browser. See Screenshot. I checked all settings up and down but found no way to tweak the basic OS software load. I tried several phone models and API levels, but had no luck.
How can I create a device providing software support similar to a physical device, I do specifically need an Internet browser.
Google Play System Images
When creating the emulator, you need to select and create a system image that contains the playstore.
I cannot find PhoneGap Developer App on any virtual device (I checked on standard Android Studio virtual device and Genymotion), its just not listed if I search for it in Google Play, I can only see PhoneGap Demo App. I know I can test from browser on virtual android, but I am finding some plugins not working correctly in browser (like navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition works fine in PhoneGap Deveoper App but complains about non secure cinnection when run in browser (http://PhoneGapDesktop:3000)
Thanks
The simplest way is to download PhoneGap Developer App apk to your PC and drag it to emulator.
It will automatically install the desired app to your emulator.
Please note that since this is obviously for educational purpouse, you should first understand and legally evaluate the terms of use of PhoneGap Developer App.
I'm need to download an app from the galaxy store app, but I can't open the galaxy store app. It installed (as system app), but don't have a way to open it.
I tryied to install it manauly from the web. It's installed, but can't be open (and don't have any app icon in with all the other device's apps).
I do see in the settings > apps > system apps that the app installed.
Anyone know how can I get the galaxy sotre app lunache and work correctly?
Using Galaxy S10+ device on the free year plan.
AWS Device Farm does not support the Galaxy app store as a default app on Device Farm. We would recommend that you either bring your own app via an APK file or download your app from the Google Play store after logging into your Google account. If you need assistance doing these things from an automation test, please see this forums post for sample code and instructions: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=997193󳝉
Thank you,
We can use the inspect element/mobile device emulator in Chrome to add/edit CSS on live sites and see how the site behaves. Is it possible to do the same directly on an android phone or tablet, somehow?
I have been asked to improve a site (but I don't have server access) but have noticed that its navigation behaves differently in the Chrome emulator and on my Android devices. (It might be a javascript that interferes or does something on the phone that is not picked up in the emulator)
If you're running a modern version of Chrome, you can use the Remote Debugging feature for Android devices. This require:
Chrome 32 or later installed on your development machine.
A USB cable to connect your Android device.
For browser debugging: Android 4.0+ and Chrome for Android.
For app debugging: Android 4.4+ and a WebView configured for debugging.
The full details are documented at the linked page from Google's documentation, but the process essentially consists of connecting the device to your computer, enabling ADB debugging, and navigating to chrome://inspect in Chrome on the computer. From there, you'll be able to use the inspector on the Desktop Chrome instance to debug into your pages within the mobile Chrome instance.
I'm working on a mobile web app. I have a variety of devices I'm testing with but one device I do not have is an Android device running Android 2.3.x. I've resorted to using Android AVD emulators via Eclipse.
It's good using the emulator for testing, however a few CSS styles of my web app render strangely in the Android 2.3.x Web Browser.
Is there any way to debug or experiment with the CSS using the default Android browser in an AVD emulator? I'm not sure if it's possible to somehow examine and alter the CSS in the browser so that I can figure out what the problem is (similar to what you do with Chrome dev tools or Firebug).
I've read that there is some way to do this using mobile Chrome for Android where it connects with Chrome on your desktop and you debug it that way... But I'm not sure about the default Android 2.3.x Browser.
You can connect from Chrome on your desktop to either an emulated Android device (e.g. an AVD started from Android Studio), or a usb connected real device (with USB debug enabled), running Chrome. Type in the following url into the desktop Chrome browser:
chrome://inspect/#devices
Then it will list any connected devices you can interact with. For example, you can get it to open a specific url and then inspect that tab - which provides for access to the web dev tools console - just like on desktop Chrome.