Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [emulation]

For questions about emulation and emulators, where a computer program is emulating (imitating) the behavior of another program or hardware device.

An emulator is a system which is designed to perform the duties of a different system. An emulator is distinct from a simulator (an emulator is intended to replicate the external behaviour of a system, whereas a simulator replicates the internal behaviour). See:

Emulators are commonly used to allow programs written for one system to be run on a different system. This is desirable when developing for a wide variety of target platforms, or when maintaining old programs designed for deprecated hardware.

One type of emulator that emulates a computer is called a . These are used by companies so they can tests their apps on the emulator rather than on an actual hardware.

Examples of some emulators:

Questions in this tag should relate in some way to the implementation or usage of a computer system which is an emulator.

4400 questions
18
votes
3 answers

How to emulate a console in WPF?

I'd like some tips-in-the-right-direction or even ready solutions to this problem and I'm pretty stuck (I'm just beginner/intermediate): I'm trying to implement a SSH in my application. The SSH-backend works fine and such, but I'm stuck at the…
FrankyTheDumb
  • 191
  • 1
  • 1
  • 4
18
votes
5 answers

Android emulator - Screen rotation

I would like to test the rotation of a phone on the emulator, I see everywhere that we have to use Ctrl+F11 but it only rotates the image of the emulator and does not launch a configuration change event or redraw the activity. Here is what I have…
Stephane Mathis
  • 6,542
  • 6
  • 43
  • 69
17
votes
4 answers

Android Simulator: Easy way to simulate a process restart due to low memory?

As I just learned, Android reserves the right to kill a background application's process at any moment in order to recycle RAM. The application is still running and can be resumed nevertheless, but all of my static variables are gone (see this…
Adrian Grigore
  • 33,034
  • 36
  • 130
  • 210
17
votes
2 answers

Game Boy: Half-carry flag and 16-bit instructions (especially opcode 0xE8)

Like so many others, I am writing a Game Boy emulator and I have a couple of questions regarding the instruction 0xE8 (ADD SP, n with an 8-bit immediate). It is claimed here that in 16-bit instructions the half-carry flag is set if a carry occurs…
0x4d45
  • 704
  • 1
  • 7
  • 18
17
votes
4 answers

How to Zoom Out in Android Emulator

Let's say I have One Emulator That is shown below. In that Emulator Right Side one Panel as we know that it is control panel and Short Cut.Now In that panel one icon is for Zoom. When I click on that icon and Zoom something in My Emulator that work…
Harshad Pansuriya
  • 20,189
  • 8
  • 67
  • 95
17
votes
2 answers

How to capture the traffic of Genymotion Emulator with WireShark?

I would like to capture with wireshark one of the Android application's http messages. I was trying to filter to android's ip address, then mac address without success. I'm sure the solution would be simply, but I couldn't figure it out yet.
b4l4zs
  • 301
  • 1
  • 2
  • 7
17
votes
0 answers

emulator: ERROR: camera_device_start_capturing: Device 'AndroidEmulatorVC0' is unable to save frame to the clipboard

When I try to start an Android Virtual Device with camera being attached to my laptop's web cam, I get the following message: emulator: ERROR: camera_device_start_capturing: Device 'AndroidEmulatorVC0' is unable to save frame to the clipboard:…
Mazar
  • 190
  • 1
  • 9
17
votes
2 answers

How to setup Fiddler and Genymotion?

I just installed fiddler and I'm developing an app in Eclipse and I am using Genymotion to check if this app works or not. How do I setup fiddler correctly to work with Genymotion?
user3271093
  • 191
  • 1
  • 1
  • 3
17
votes
7 answers

Reliable way of detecting whether an Android app is running in 'BlueStacks'

I would like to ascertain at run-time inside an Android app whether it is running within the BlueStacks Android emulator. This is so I can modify the way the app runs when running inside BlueStacks. BlueStacks does not support multi-touch so I want…
Twice Circled
  • 1,410
  • 1
  • 15
  • 23
17
votes
5 answers

How to create an SD Card image file for the Android emulator?

I need to create an SD Card image file for an Android emulator that I am running. Given that I am a beginner at Android development, a complete step-by-step tutorial would be awesome.
user1413437
  • 207
  • 2
  • 3
  • 8
16
votes
9 answers

How to find out from code if my Android app runs on emulator or real device?

I have read this stackoverflow thread already and I tried using the code given in that answer to find out if I run my code on the emulator or on a real device: import android.content.ContentResolver; import android.provider.Settings.Secure; ... …
Addi
  • 1,099
  • 1
  • 12
  • 17
16
votes
5 answers

Getting Nexus S Android NFC into Card emulation mode

Has anyone been able to get the nexus s into card emulation mode? The latest android release does not seem to support this yet. This article says it's possible…
kgibbon
  • 726
  • 1
  • 15
  • 37
16
votes
1 answer

How to disable Saving State on Android Emulator?

Wondering if there is a way to switch off the new "saving state..." feature of Android Virtual Devices (AVD); so that they will quit immediately and not spend a few seconds preserving a state.
John Gorenfeld
  • 2,015
  • 1
  • 18
  • 27
16
votes
4 answers

What makes building game console emulators so hard

I've been doing some reading about the people building an emulator for the Wii and it seems that given that it is nothing more then a beefed up GameCube, or the Nintendo64, so what makes build emulators for these systems so hard? On a slight bit of…
UnkwnTech
  • 88,102
  • 65
  • 184
  • 229
16
votes
6 answers

Visual Studio - Xamarin - Emulator black screen/

I decided to install xamarin the other day so I could start coding in c#. So far it's been an absolute nightmare getting anything to work. I downloaded the xamarin bundle that visual studio offers and now I'm trying to simply run a test app and the…
Roy Zohan
  • 197
  • 1
  • 1
  • 11
1 2 3
…
99 100