Running Google Maps v2 on the Android emulator
At the moment, referencing the Google Android Map API v2 you can’t run Google Maps v2 on the Android emulator; you must use a device for your tests.
android-virtual-device
Android SDK Manager gives “Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml” error when selecting repository
Try this solution and it worked. this problem is caused because ADB is unable to connect to the android servers to fetch updates. (If at home try turning off firewall) Goto Android SDK Manager c://android-sdk-windows/ open SDK-Manager Click Settings – Will be asked for a proxy. If have one enter the IP address and the … Read more
what caused IOException and Broken pipe
If someone uses both eclipse and android studio together, then this error will be thrown by eclipse. So even if you select the device through DDMS, its gonna throw this error.
How to start Genymotion device with shell command?
Genymotion proposes a shell: the Genymotion Shell. It is not currently possible to start a VM with it. But you can however launch a Genymotion VM thanks to this command: player –vm-name <VM id | VM name> This command launches the Genymotion’s player that gives you access to all the Genymotion enhancements widgets (GPS, battery, … Read more
OK button in “Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD)” dialog does not do anything
you need to avoid spaces in the AVD name. Put underscore instead and the OK button will become active 🙂
Android Studio Unable to run AVD
I received the follow error: ERROR: Unfortunately, there’s an incompatibility between HAXM hypervisor and VirtualBox 4.3.30+ which doesn’t allow multiple hypervisors to co-exist. It is being actively worked on; you can find out more about the issue at http://b.android.com/197915 (Android) and https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14294 (VirtualBox) To solve this problem I only needed to close Docker on Mac.
Why emulator is very slow in Android Studio?
The Best Solution is to use Android Emulator with Intel Virtualization Technology. Now if your system have a Processor that have a feature called as Intel Virtualization Technology, then Intel X86 images will be huge benefit for you. because it supports Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM). To check that your processor support HAXM … Read more
“No system images installed for this target” even though Image is installed
After SDK Update I had the same problems with API Level 19 and in my case restarting eclipse didn’t solve it. For some reason, in the sdk/system-images/android-19 directory, sub-folders with system images (armeabi-v7a and x86) were placed within “default” directory. I just moved them into android-19 directory (if eclipse is running at the same time, … Read more
Android SDK Manager – Do you need to install all Android platforms?
Not at all. You just need to install those platforms which you are targeting for your apps and which you intend to test your app with. If I were you, I’d install: API 24 (Multiple app windows, Notification enhancements, Multi-locale support) API 23 (Runtime permissions toggling, Doze mode and BoringSSL) API 21 (Massive changes, including … Read more
Pasting into Genymotion Android Emulator
Copy/pasting text from the host into the virtual device is possible since version 2.1.0. (Note that simply updating Genymotion does not suffice, you also have to recreate the virtual device after updating to 2.1.0 or greater.) Pasting can be performed via long tap/click + PASTE in the virtual device.