android virtual device manager
Virtual devices are configured via the Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager. To launch the AVD Manager in Visual Studio, click the Android Emulator Manager (AVD) icon in the toolbar: Alternately, you can launch the AVD Manager from the menu bar by selecting Tools > Android > Android Emulator Manager. Running an App in the Android Emulator. You can run an app from an Android Studio project. Or, you can run an app that's been installed on the emulator as you would run any app on a device. To start the emulator and run an app in your project: Open an Android Studio project and select Run . About the Android Emulator. You can launch an app on the emulator when you run your project, or you can drag an APK file onto the emulator to install it. As with a hardware device, after you install an app on a virtual device, it remains until you uninstall or replace it. Prerequisite: ADT 21.0.0. I just updated my ADT with 21.0.0 and I got to see a new feature available in the Android Virtual Device Manager window, which I will discuss here. Creating a Device Definition. To create a custom device definition, click Create Device.... This opens the Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD) dialog box, where you can configure your custom device. To create a custom device definition, click Create.... This opens the Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD) dialog box, where you can configure your custom device. Below are the steps to create an AVD from AVD manager graphical interface. 1  Go to Window ->AVD Manager and select Virtual Devices. 2  Click on New to create a Virtual Device, give it some Name and select Target Android Platform from the drop down list.  Click “Create AVD” and we are done! One of the interesting moments for me is that it's not well documented yet on Developer.Android.com other than ADT Plugin 21.0.0, here they have only included only about the changes they included in AVD Manager window. Anyway, let me explore new changes of Android Virtual Device Manager window. In earlier, we were having only AVD Manager with list of AVD’s created by us, same like attached in below image. From the ADT 21.0.0, we are having one more feature available to use i.e Device Definitions. The emulator uses an Android Virtual Device (AVD) configuration to determine the look, functionality, and system image of the simulated device. AVDs let you define certain hardware aspects of your emulated devices and allow you to create many configurations to test different Android platforms and hardware permutations. Download this Forrester report on the new landscape of Customer Identity and Access Management, brought to you in partnership with Stormpath. I just updated my ADT with 21.0.0 and I got to see a new feature available in the Android Virtual Device Manager window, which I will discuss here. You can create your own device definition for using it later to create Android virtual device. Inside the window, you will see Blue and Yellow colored Android robots with device specifications. 1  Blue – Indicated built-in device definitions.  Yellow – A generic device definition.
An emulator configuration that lets you define certain hardware aspects of your emulated devices and allows you to create many configurations to test different Android platforms and hardware permutations.