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Android Virtual Device (AVD), is a virtual instance of the target device (phone/tablet) which can be run in the Android emulator for simulation.

Android Virtual Device (AVD), is a virtual instance of the target device (phone/tablet) which can be run in the Android emulator for simulation.

AVD supports various CPU architectures and Android API levels, emulating the necessary instruction sets. It supports some hardware like external SD card, camera that can be emulated using webcam and keyboard that can be emulated using both on screen and physical workstation keyboard. Some other hardware sensors can be emulated on AVD by using SensorSimulator.

Developer can have multiple AVD on the desktop. While AVD is not a complete replacement for testing on a physical phone, a physical phone is also not a complete replacement for AVD as AVD allows to test under various architectures , APIs and screen sizes.

Developers can use avdmanager to create or delete AVDs or manage them through Android Studio. There are several commands and options to manage and edit AVD settings here.

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How Do I Create Working Android Virtual Devices for Nexus 7 and UG007 MiniPC?

Xamarin Studio Business Edition has a device definition for the Nexus 7 but the AVD I created from the device throws an internal error when attempting to deploy with Xamarin Studio and hangs at the Waiting for Device... point in Visual Studio 2012.…
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Eclipse doesn't start android app in emulator

I'm right at the beginning of android programming. I created an AVD that works just fine when launching via the AVD-manager. I also "created" a hello-world app as a little test. When I try to run the app as an android app, nothing happens. No…
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Android emulator GPU on for NDK apps

I have noticed that applications created with the Android SDK are fine using OpenGL ES commands inside an avd with GPU acceleration on, on the other hand applications created with the NDK to work with OpenGL ES always fail to even start: is this the…
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Android 2.3 API is not available as a target option for AVD

I am new to android development, and I am trying to create an AVD for testing an app before pushing it to my phone (htc desire running android 2.3.5). I am using the ADT bundle, and with SDK manager I have downloaded these: 4.2.2 (API 17) 4.1.2…
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New Android developer, Project/App not running, AVD issues

I am new to Android development and having very hard time running my first "Hello World" application. I downloaded ADT Bundle from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. Created a project, but not able to run it at all. There are 2 issues, 1)…
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opengl-es 1.1 or 2.0 on an Android 2.3.3 AVD?

Should you be able to run an apk that uses opengl-es 1.1 or 2.0 on an Android 2.3.3 AVD? Or does the emulator not emulate opengl-es 1.1 + for 2.3.3 devices?
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Virtual device without menu button

I found this answer: "Start ICS emulator without Menu button" but the "hardware" properties list doesn't exist in the latest AVD manager GUI (v21.1). How to create an ICS emulator without menu button in the latest version (21.1) of AVD manager ?
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Android AVD - Faster On Windows Or On Ubuntu VM?

My Android emulator runs painfully slow on my PC so I was thinking about installing Ubuntu on a virtual machine and running the AVD there. Do you think it would be faster if I did so?
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When making a new project, how do I ensure my Android App will run on 3 different versions of Android?

I am building an application in Android and the final application needs to be capable of running on three different AVDs. What would I set as the minimum and target SDK and what which I compile with? I am using Eclipse Juno with the Android plugin.…
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Cannot Create SD with Eclipse AVD on Mac 10.5

EDIT: I'm sorry if I haven't provided enough information. But if you would need some bit of information to be able to answer this, please just let me know what it is and I'll put it up here. I am trying to create an AVD with Eclipse 3.8 (Juno) on…
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How to create avd using device definition?

I want to create android virtual device for Google Nexus from the console. Now I'm using command android -s create avd -n %avd_name% -t 1 -p %work_dir%\devices\%avd_name% -f -s 480x800 The result is not the same as if I've craeted it in the sdk…
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Google API target not available in AVD Manager

I am newbie in android development. I want to configure my AVD target to Google API, but I just realized that I have only Android target in the AVD manager. What should I do? Thanks
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can't set google api as target in android

I have installed google API but when I try to change the target of the emulator to google API, I don't have the option to change the target. Is there another way to set the target to google API?
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Add Google Account to AVD - Receiving Error "the server requires security features your phone does not support"

I am trying to add Google account to Samsung Galaxy tab AVD .. but I am getting weird error - "the server requires security features your phone does not support" I thought this is very basic thing so not sure what am i really missing. AVD…
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Android: AVD Another "Failed to Allocate Memory: 8" Post

I've done a lot of searching, and there doesn't appear to be a solution to this other than setting the avd memory down to about 512. I should have no problems running avd's with 1024 or higher ram as my machine is a quadcore xeon with 16 gb of RAM.…
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