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Is it possible to develop for Android things with only emulated item. So an emulator for Raspberry pi3 and a virtual breadboard also any other components necessary ?

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  • ioT don't have UI to emulate? or what you mean exactly? –  Jun 21 '17 at 20:19
  • I want to start developing for android things, but i dont want to spend money on any components. Is there any way were i have everything in an emulator ? – Zeyad Gasser Jun 21 '17 at 20:44
  • unfortunately no!, android things just supported in android studio 3.0 but with out emulator, i think if there a probability for emulated android things it will take more time. so unfortunately no. no **UI** to emulate. –  Jun 21 '17 at 20:50

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There is no Android Things (and, of course, Raspberry Pi 3 with breadboard) emulator yet, and probably emulator will not be created. But if You want to test only UI (or other non hardware specific things) you can use a normal emulator as in this answer of Blundell described:

in your AndroidManifest.xml add that the Android Things SDK is not required:

  <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.things" android:required="false"/>

  ... activities etc

android:required="false" is the key

You just have to make sure, that the code that is running on the emulator is not using any of the Android Things java imports at that time.

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