Questions tagged [genymotion]

Genymotion is a relatively fast Android emulator which comes with pre-configured Android (x86 with OpenGL hardware acceleration) images, suitable for application testing. The project has evolved from the old BuildDroid project, then AndroVM, and comes with a new player design, installer and more.

Genymotion is a relatively fast Android emulator which comes with pre-configured Android (x86 with OpenGL hardware acceleration) images, suitable for application testing. The project has evolved from the old AndroidVM and comes with a new player design and installer.

Genymotion features:

  • Easily download and run pre-configured virtual images: covering a range of Android versions from 2.x onwards, and various phone and tablet screen sizes.
  • Networking: Ethernet (emulates Wi-Fi connection)
  • GPS (with configurable coordinates) and battery (with configurable battery levels) emulation widgets.
  • Display: OpenGL hardware acceleration, multiscreen, full screen display
  • Genymotion shell which allows you to interact with your VM using a command line
  • ADB support
  • Eclipse and Android Studio plugins
  • Supports Linux, Windows and Mac.
  • "Drag&Drop" APK installs
  • "Drag&Drop" ZIP support for system updates/patches

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Frequently Asked Questions

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genymotion throws libssl_conf.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I execute following code on Kali Linux #/opt/genymobile/genymotion# ./genymotion I get > Logging activities to file: /root/.Genymobile/genymotion.log Auto configuration failed 139950541100688:error:25066067:DSO support…
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Android Studio doesn't see genymotion

I updated 0.5 to 0.8.14 version of android studio , but now studio doesn't see genymotion , what I must do now ? Thanks for all . Edit :I solved the problem by updating genymotion too
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How to copy virtual devices downloaded by Genymotion to another machine?

I have installed Genymotion for Android in one machine (windows PC) and downloaded a Nexus virtual device. How can I copy the virtual device to another development machine? or do I have to download again for each dev machine? Genymotion is storing…
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Accessing files from genymotion sd card

I have been using genymoton for quite some time now. Could someone pls. tell me if there is a way by which I can access the files present in the sd card of genymotion emulator? Currently I have to upload them to google driver and then download on…
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Unable to start Genymotion virtual device, incompatible CPU

The first time I ran Genymotion virtual device, it had worked. But when I tried running it today, I got this error message What may have changed from the last time I used it? Will be grateful for any solutions that I can get. Thanks. My Device…
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Pasting into Genymotion Android Emulator

Is there any way to copy and paste from outside the VM into the Genymotion Emulator?
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EGL_emulation failed to establish connection to host - android

I am trying to run a simple OpenGL program in Android. I am running this in an Android 4.1 emulator. I switched on its GPU emulation and it worked fine yesterday. When I ran that today, initially it was hanging saying, OpenGL taking time to render -…
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GenyMotion Unable to start the Genymotion virtual device

When I run Genymotion, I get the following error: Unable to start the Genymotion virtual device. Unable to configure the network adapter for the virtual device. Please, check the following points: From VirtualBox, in the main parameters of…
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Unable to start Genymotion Virtual Device - Virtualbox Host Only Ethernet Adapter Failed to start

I'm using Genymotion v13.0 on Windows 8 Pro to create Virtual Device successfully, but when I try to run it I get this error: Unable to start Genymotion Virtual Device. Screenshot: Trying to run it via Virtualbox, I got this error…
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Android Studio: You must specify a path to Genymotion folder to use this feature

I've downloaded and installed the Genymotion emulator plugin via the plugin wizard in Android Studio. I'm running Android Studio on a Windows machine. I'm getting a warning saying that I must provide a path to Genymotion folder: Where is this…
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How to start Genymotion device with shell command?

I need to start genymotion via shell command, does anyone know if it is possible to do this?
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Access host from Genymotion emulator

I try to connect from my app to host using IP address 192.168.56.1, but without success. I checked in ipconfig and there is a Virtualbox connnection with above mentioned IP. Can someone help to fix it?
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Genymotion Android emulator - adb access?

I downloaded Genymotion Android emulators for Oracle VirtualBox (http://www.genymotion.com/) on my Windows 7 PC, created a virtual Jelly Bean with Google Apps device. How do I enable ADB access to it? In system settings/Developer options I already…
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Genymotion how to debug with Chrome Dev Tools

We're using Genymotion to test/debug a WebView based Android Application. The device show up in Chrome Dev Tools via Inspect Device, but with no inspection ability. We made different attempts, with/whitout ADB, with/whitout Android Studio but with…
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Using layer-list to display some drawable images

Android studio 2.0 Preview 3b Hello, I have created the following layout that I want to use for a background for my app. I am using the layer-list and I want to display a bowl of peas in 2 locations. Everything looks ok in the preview, but when I…
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