emulation
What’s a good source to learn about QEMU?
Best Resources: Main QEMU Usage Documentation Qemu Man Page – Invaluable resource when working with qemu. Quick Start Guide – Slightly ubuntu/debian specific. Covers KVM. Qemu Networking Guide – Great resource, super useful. Have fun qemu’s a great tool.
How to fix “Fail to connect to camera service” exception in Android emulator
From the Android Developers Docs: Calling Camera.open() throws an exception if the camera is already in use by another application, so we wrap it in a try block. Try wrapping that code in a try catch block like so: try { releaseCameraAndPreview(); if (camId == 0) { mCamera = Camera.open(Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT); } else { mCamera = … Read more
Android emulator not rotating to landscape
Some of the emulator targets like 4.4 (API level 19) and 2.3 have a bug. Change your emulator to target version 4.2 or 4.3 and try to change the orientation. See the history of this bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189 Related question: Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4
How to change GENYMOTION screen orientation?
Two ways : Button in the sidebar CTRL + F11 Edit : And if it does not work, it’s surely because the application in foreground is orientation locked.
AVD – PANIC: Could not open… – not a path issue
This has been asked a few times already, try these: Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to C:\Users\Administrator Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click in Run/Debug and String Substitution Add a new variable called: user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator Create an AVD and run it. Original answer by Colin … Read more
Intel HAXM on macOS high sierra (10.13)
The command line installation doesn’t work and gives unsupported mac os version error, while the installation through IntelHAXM_6.2.1.mpkg works but kext is not loaded due to “Approved Kernel Extension Loading” changes, So you will need to allow the extensions from Intel and restart your mac, then launch the emulator like from inside Android Studio, To … Read more
Android Emulator: Unable to start webcam to capture picture in emulator
In Android Studio, go to AVD Manager, click on edit (pencil) button in Actions. After that, in next appearing window, click on Advance settings, and then scroll down and in Camera options, select webcam for front and back.
I cannot use camera in genymotion emulator
UPDATE Made it a community wiki in case someone else has something to add, I can’t keep this updated right now 🙂 It could just be that you didn’t activate the camera for the emulator. Opposed to the stock emulators that once you set up the webcam they just work, on genymotion emulators you need … Read more
Detect when Android emulator is fully booted
adb shell getprop init.svc.bootanim This will tell you whether or not the boot animation is running. It’s what we use on our headless build server to check if the emulator is up. The sys.boot_completed from dac2009 is what lead me to find that flag. We use init.svc.bootanim instead because boot_completed has a tendency of triggering … Read more