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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.

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Java ME Default Emulator File Storage

I created an app in which a file is created. The file directory I chosen was Pictures/ folder of Library (WINDOWS 7). The emulator enlists the created file but it is not found in my hard disk in pictures/ directory. Where is the file actually…
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ActivityManager: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { act=android.intent.act

I have a problem... I'm making a simple program about GIS, and when I'm trying to launch it from eclipse to my device, I get warning when I check the console. ActivityManager: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent {…
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android installed keyboard starts automaticlly on message not on editText

i am working with emulator,i build an application and the user have to write on arabic, i installed arabic keyboard, and it works when i want to write on message like this, when i open the message i will have just 1 keyboard, but when i type any…
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Android Emulator Orientation Change Through Emulator Console or ADB

I am trying to build an automated test framework for checking basic things that an app should respond to, without crashing. One of those is checking if an app responds to configuration change properly. Now, since it is automated, I have to switch…
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How to increase size of internal memory in Google tv emulator

I would like to install application in google tv emulator, but it don't install because of insuffient internal memory. I have tried 1) disk.dataPartition.size=1024 in avd config ini file 2) emulator -avd -partition-size 1024 -wipe-data But without…
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bypass specific web address in an Android emulator

Is there anyway to bypass specific server in the android emulator by the -http-proxy command line parameters?
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Prompt from Spinner is not showing the items

I just created an app for Android using Eclipse, and everything works, however, when I click on the Spinner, the prompt seems empty but the values are there since I can select them, what can I do to make them visible? it works in the emulator, but…
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Emulation: Unconditional jumps and PC increment through CPU cycles

I'm writing a simple GB emulator (wow, now that's something new, isn't it), since I'm really taking my first steps in emu. What i don't seem to understand is how to correctly implement the CPU cycle and unconditional jumps. Consider the command JP…
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How to emulate mouse clicking/mouse moving/key typing in the global context?

Emulate means to invoke these events programatically. Global context means that these event invocations should affect the whole desktop (sort of global environment) rather than the application which produces them. Moreover, the application itself…
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Unable to launch bluetooth chat sample app from developer.android.com on emulator

I have built a project from the existing samples of bluetooth chat for android 2.3 I am aware that the the emulator does not support bluetooth. Earlier I was able to run the app on emulator. The functions didn't work, but I was at-least able to see…
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Android Emulators can't access internet

I've been going through all the possible solutions found here, unfortunately, none of them worked for me. My manifest is setup properly; I have 3 differents AVD's and all of them show the 3G logo at the top right corner. I'm working on an App that…
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Android - Is the groupId of sdcard_rw always 1015?

I found out that the group sdcard_rw has an id of 1015 on my emulator. Same on my Nexus One. Is it fixed?
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Android emulator freezes after loadUrl in webview several times

I'm trying to load http://abc.com site through the emulator and reload it automatically every X minutes. After 1-3 times loading the site by running loadUrl(http://abc.com) the following happens: 1. the application is not responding anymore, most of…
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Stop WP7 emulator from launching on debug of Windows version

Currently I have a solution with Windows and WP7 XNA projects in it. Whenever I try to debug just the Windows project it thinks it needs the WP7 emulator and decides to launch it. I opened up the Configuration Manager and created a new configuration…
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Perl: How to emulate Ruby's "include/extend" mechanism?

How I can emulate in my Perl code things like Ruby's "include"/"extend" mechanism? Let's take for example the following code in Ruby: module ActiveRecord class Base class << self #... end #... end Base.class_eval do …
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