Run Android app Only on Physical Device not Emulator

Question

How can I make my app run only on a physical android device, not an emulator.

When the app starts I want to check if the device is a physical device or emulator. If it is an emulator, I want my app to stop.

How can I do this?

Are you asking how to make the app not run in an emulator when you launch it, or how to keep other people from being able to run your app in an emulator? — Joseph Sible-Reinstate Monica, Mar 09 '17 at 04:05

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

In the onCreate() method of your launch activity, you can check whether the device is running on an emulator and, if it is, just call finish(). To check whether you're running on an emulator, you can use something like the following code (taken from this answer):

public static boolean isEmulator() {
    return Build.FINGERPRINT.startsWith("generic")
            || Build.FINGERPRINT.startsWith("unknown")
            || Build.MODEL.contains("google_sdk")
            || Build.MODEL.contains("Emulator")
            || Build.MODEL.contains("Android SDK built for x86")
            || Build.MANUFACTURER.contains("Genymotion")
            || (Build.BRAND.startsWith("generic") && Build.DEVICE.startsWith("generic"))
            || "google_sdk".equals(Build.PRODUCT);
}

You can find lots of other suggestions on the web for detecting an emulator environment. I don't know of any that are absolutely foolproof, but the above is pretty robust.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 31 '21 at 17:12

You can try something like below

boolean isEmulator() {
        return (Build.BRAND.startsWith("generic") && Build.DEVICE.startsWith("generic"))
                || Build.FINGERPRINT.startsWith("generic")
                || Build.FINGERPRINT.startsWith("unknown")
                || Build.HARDWARE.contains("goldfish")
                || Build.HARDWARE.contains("ranchu")
                || Build.HARDWARE.equals("vbox86")
                || Build.HARDWARE.toLowerCase().contains("nox")
                || Build.MODEL.contains("google_sdk")
                || Build.MODEL.contains("Emulator")
                || Build.MODEL.contains("Android SDK built for x86")
                || Build.MODEL.toLowerCase().contains("droid4x")
                || Build.MANUFACTURER.contains("Genymotion")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("sdk_google")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("google_sdk")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("sdk")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("sdk_x86")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("vbox86p")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("emulator")
                || Build.PRODUCT.contains("simulator")
                || Build.PRODUCT.toLowerCase().contains("nox")
                || Build.BOARD.toLowerCase().contains("nox")
                || Build.BOOTLOADER.toLowerCase().contains("nox")
                || Build.SERIAL.toLowerCase().contains("nox");
    }

It's an update of the code used in the Flutter project(device info plugin). check it here

Run Android app Only on Physical Device not Emulator

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