I'm going through a simple example - I'm using Eclipse -
When I click on the "run" toolbar icon, my app start screen is shown (as I was hoping for) but the entire droid simulator is huge / too large.
I searched and found that I should go to Window - Android SDK and SDK Manager. The highlight my simulator and select start then click Scale Display to Size and then enter the dimension. Then Click Launch.
When I do this procedure I get a generic android window -I can slide the start bar and so forth but I do not get my start screen of my program (set up in the main.xml).
Can you help resolve this?
In Eclipse if you Select the Android SDK and AVD Manager in the Window drop down menu.
You should be able to change the screen size of your Android Virtual Device (Emulator) there.
Look up the resolution of the device you're targeting. E.g. QVGA for the HTC Wildfire.
If the emulator resolution is correct, you can ask the emulator to scale itself down using a command line option -scale
From eclipse, you would add this as Additional Emulator Command Line Options
Project | Properties
Select Run/Debug Setting
Choose the Launch configuration, select Edit
Select the Target Tab
You may need to grow the dialog here to see the additional Emulator launch options.
Here you can add a -scale option.
-scale .5
works for me
Project | Properties Select Run/Debug Setting Choose the Launch configuration, select Edit Select the Target Tab You may need to grow the dialog here to see the additional Emulator launch options.
Here you can add a -scale option.
-scale 0.55
works for me PERFEKT^^
Ooor..
You can download the HTC Wildfire skin (like I just did) with all of it's sweet keys and stuff all over the skin :) I'm lovin' it
Link to the skin and instructions to use
Now I have to figure out how to make it look just like the original device's OS. I believe that the last version for that HTC is 2.2.1 (API 8), but somehow looks quite different..
Another "on the fly" solution would be to start your emulator from the Android SDK & AVD Manager :
select your AVD, press start, check "Scale Display to real size", and have fun finding the size you want !
I use this often for debugging as the execution is a bit smoother on slow PCs like mine.
Hope this helps !
You can use the command line option -skin [height x width], for example -skin 320x480
You can start the emulator using the desired AVD from Android SDK & AVD Manager, then with Scale display to real size set the desired size.
Your application will not be launched, but next time you launch it, it will be done using the existing AVD if required properties match.
If it doesn't happen, select your project and Run -> Run As -> Run Configurations... -> Android Application -> Your application -> Target -> Deployment Target selection mode -> Manual
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A friend of mine (who doesn't have enough reputation to post images) is facing a problem with his emulator. It is not rendering as it should, even though the clicks are where they should be. In order to click on the Back button, he must click down in the black part of the "screen".
He already tried to restart his computer, change monitor resolutions and creating another emulator images.
He uses KDE and is using his NVidia hardware to process graphics.
My answer from this post: Android emulator screen fills up only some fraction part of actual android emulator screen
Best and simplest way to do it on Windows 10:
Close your Android Emulator if it is open
Right-click desktop
Click Display Settings
Set Scale and layout to 100%
Open Android Emulator
Revert your Scale and layout to the (Recommended) percentage
WORKS 100%
You can fix the scaling issue when using the Hardware rendering by simply making windows override the scaling setting. How?, it's very easy. Simply locate the .exe file for the emulator that you are using, (e.g. "qemu-system-armel.exe" for ARM and "qemu-system-x86_64.exe" for x86). To make sure which .exe file, just run the emulator then use task manager to locate the .exe file is running, see the screenshot. locate the .exe file using task manager
In my case it was in this location: "C:\Users[Username]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\qemu\windows-x86_64\qemu-system-x86_64.exe"
Now just right click on the file then click on properties then choose the "Compatibility" tab. Under "Settings" at the bottom, click on "Change high DPI settings". A new window will open. Tick the last checkbox "Override high DPI scaling behavior." under "High DPI scaling override". Then select from the drop down below it "System" (this is very important or it will not make any difference!), see the screenshot below. Now just hit OK and OK. Restart Android Studio and that's it, problem solved :)
Android Studio 2.1.3 on Windows 10 64 bit.
I go to Tools->Android->AVD Manager.
It shows me an error "Android Virtual Device" failed to load - click Details to see the error.
When I click Details, it does not show any error.
When I click on Edit & try to turn of "Host GPU" & turn on "Snapshot" option, the OK button remains grayed out - so I cannot save the Snapshot Option.
The emulator itself runs fine - however, how do I turn on the Snapshot option.
Try going to your SDK manager and making sure everything is updated. Your options are slightly different and I believe it's because you are using an older version.
They now have the Emulator Accelerator. You can also select to run off of your hardware and choose the number of Cores from your CPU to assign to the virtual device.
accroding to this image http://imgur.com/cWqmDgH you have not set skin ..so please choose skin option then you will be able to see ok button
I have started a new emulator from 'launch new emulator' . But when I run another project later another emulator is getting loaded . Actually I wanted to use the same emulator itself.I there any option to reuse the same emulator and prevent new emulator being launched automatically.
Instead of Run use Run>Run Configurations>Target>Manual and manually select the AVD that is already launched.
I often have this problem when i both have the physical device( a real phone) plugged in the pc and an emulator. You can put the devices list near the console and logcat views, so you can select here the right device to use (install the app and show the logcat).
Go in window -> show view -> other -> devices.
From there you can select which device to use (if nothing is selected, a new emulator is run following the target option you set following Mangusto's answer)
You can select the emulator that you wish to make default from windows->android sdk manager->
edit the virtual device from that you can select skin you want. or set the dimension.
I think this can help you
Go to Run > Edit Configurations, choose your run configuration on the left side, check Use same device for future launches checkbox.
I want to create a virtual device (nexus one) with wvga800, 800x480 but when I do, I can't see the whole screen on my 13" macbook pro, and I can't scroll down to see the bottom of the screen. How can I see the bottom of my virtual phone screen???
thanks,
You can scale your emulator window, to more closely match the actual device size. This is an option when you run the emulator from the Android SDK and AVD Manager. This is the window you get from running the android command, or from Window|Android SDK and AVD Manager in Eclipse.
Not only will this give you an emulator window closer in size to what the actual device is (so you do not assume people can necessarily click on too-small buttons, etc.), but it will also fit your screen.
This is actually possible from your project as well, no need to start the emulator through the manager:
1) go to Run > Run Configurations... > (Select your application on the left hand side) > (Click the "Target" tab on the right hand side).
2) At the bottom there, you'll see 'Emulator launch parameters'. In the 'additional emulator command line options', add '-scale 0.75' (to make the screen 75% of full size)
Next time you start the emulator it will have scaled properly, hooray!
Ok, I found it, you have to START the emulator from the AVD Manager, after you hit the 'START' button, another window pops up allowing you to set the size of the emulator display.
If you run a project from eclipse, you will not get that screen to set the size of the emulator.
To view full emulator make use of it's full screen mode using alt+enter keys on windows & Linux. But, for mac I'm not sure b'cos i have not checked for it; it has to be same like making your media player window full screen. Please do check for mac & update my post.
Most of the idea is in the title, I just would like to know if it is possible to start 2 emulators at the same time with 2 different locale (to test the I18n of my app). If there was a way of doing it in Eclipse, that would be greater...
Something like
If you click the Button for starting the emulator in Eclipse (the litlle mobile phone) Eclipse should open a dialog that lets you choose which android virtual device (AVD) you want to start. You can create a second AVD in this dialog and then start them both after each other.
Now you have to change the locale of one of the emulators to the wanted language. The emulator should save this settings so you have to configure this only once.
In Eclipse, this is easy to do. Use the Android Virtual Device (AVD) manager to set up as many emulators as you want. Depending on whether you've updated to the latest version of the Eclipse plug-in, the button to launch the AVD manager will either be a black phone or the Android Robot's head above a black square with an arrow in it. Either way it's in the toolbar near the shortcuts for Save, Print, etc.
In the AVD you can create various emulators with different Android versions (download other SDKs in the 'Available Packages' menu in the left). Once you've created the emulators, start them with the button on the right. You can have multiple emulators running at the same time if you want. The emulators have a program installed on them already called 'Custom Locale' that lets you change their location information. You can't do this while creating the emulators, but it's saved when you do in the emulator so you don't need to do it every time.
After that, to choose which emulator your program will run on, change its run configuration Target to manual. This is done by clicking on the more options arrow next to the green 'Start Program' button, selecting Run Configurations, the Target tab, then selecting manual. You can also do this by right clicking on your project in the project browser (list on the left), and the option is under 'Run As' -> Run Configurations.
To connect adb to a particular emulator or device, use one of the options "-e", "-d" or "-s " as documented for the ADB tool.
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
In general the documentation is a great place to start.