Genymotion: how to load apk every time?

Question

I'm getting started with Android development and with Genymotion. It's difficult to get Genymotion to install a .apk and run it more than once. Here's what I'm doing:

1. Begin with Genymotion running.
2. Press Genymotion icon in Elipse.
3. See Genymotion Virtual Devices Manager. Note that State of my VM is on
4. Create a new Android Project
5. Press the green Run button
6. See Run As dialog. Select Android Application
7. See Android Device Chooser. Select Genymotion_nexus_one
8. See hello world app run. Press GM home button

From here if I change the app, it's difficult to get the app to re-display in the emulator:

1. Drag a button to activity_main.xml. Save.
2. Press the green Run button
3. Nothing happens

To get the app to re-display requires jiggle the Handle type actions:

1. If I Clear the console log or bring up the GM Virtual Devices manager, before I press the Run button, the app will generally display in Genymotion.

Any ideas how to make Genymotion behave without Jiggling the handle?

I'm running the latest SDK: 20131030 on OSX 10.7.5

Answer 1

Drag drop apk on Genemotion emulator ,it will automatically installs and creates a shortcut.enjoy.

Answer 2

run in command-prompt :

adb install your_app_name.apk

:-)

Answer 3

Solved:

Since installing the adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030, I'd never right-clicked the Run button to display the drop-down menu there. Having done that once, pressing the Run button now brings up Android Device Chooser every time (as it should).

When I first ran into this problem, I reinstalled adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030 and Genymotion. I saw no change in behavior. This appears to be a minor bug in this version of adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030

Answer 4

In Android Studio, if you run your project (shift+F10) when Genymotion virtual device is running; you'll see the device in connected devices list in Select Deployment Target window.