Installation and configuration of android-simulator genymotion

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I. Introduction of Genymotion

1, genymotion Android Simulator is not a common simulator, strictly speaking, genymotion is a virtual machine, the network is defined as a simulator, the speed of loading the app is relatively fast, operation is also very smooth.

2, Genymotion relies on VirtualBox (famous open-source virtual machine software, lightweight, easy to use!) ), which means that genymotion is used with VirtualBox (Genymotion calls the VirtualBox interface).

3, genymotion can be used as a plugin for Eclipse, Android Studio, very convenient. Second, the software required to install the Genymotion

1. genymotion (without virtual box) and Virtualbox-4.1.20-80170-win

2, of course, can also go directly to genymotion official website download: official website connection (need to register), the official website provides two versions, with Virtual box of the Genymotion integration package and without virtual box Genymotion installation package. Integration package, after installation has been an error, it is possible that the integrated version of the virtual box version is high, the next low version of the. Third, installation instructions

1, make sure that your system has not installed a virtual machine or has been uninstalled, or you know the associated genymotion and your own installed virtual machine;

2, install VirtualBox, all the way click Next;

3, installation genymotion; Iv. Instructions for use

1, start genymotion, and use their own Genymotion official website registered password login;

2, if you want to associate your local SDK needs to be configured: In the Genymotion main interface, click Settings->adb->use Custom Android SDK tools, on Android In the SDK box, select the path of the SDK folder on your computer, such as E:\ADT-BUNDLE-WINDOWS-X86_64-20140702\SDK on my computer;

Note: enter the ADB interface in Settings click on the Use custom Android SDK tools option and then no longer click, that is, this step may be very card, do not click on the option to find no response to continue to click, a little later.

3, in the Genymotion main interface Click Add to add the simulator you want to model, choose one, let him download good can use;

4, the simulator download good after double-click the simulator to start it;

Note: This step I also encountered a problem, start the simulator error, and then launch the simulator in virtual box cannot access the kernel driver error

Solution: (1) first shut down their own firewall and anti-virus software (preferably first broken network), do not close the words directly run there may be unknown error prompts;

2) Enter the C:\Program files\oracle\virtualbox\drivers\vboxdrv folder (depending on where your VBox program is installed or placed), Locate Vboxdrv.inf This file, right-click the mouse button, and then select Install; V. Installing the Genymotion plugin under eclipse

(The computer configuration is low, so the eclipse development android–!)

1. Open Eclipse, click Help->install New Software...->add, and in the pop-up Add Repository dialog box, enter the Name box in the: Genymotion,location box, type: http ://plugins.genymotion.com/eclipse Click OK to download and install.

2. After installation, you can see the following plugin icon in eclipse

3, also need to configure the Genymotion installation path in the plug-in: Click Window->preferences->genymobile->genymotion, in the Genymotion In the Directory box, select the path of the genymotion that you just loaded, as I am here the default installation path: C:\Program files\genymobile\genymotion Vi. API version issues

Running the program found that the emulator that Genymotion started was missing.

Entering the DDMS interface will see the following:

This is mainly because the API version of the Genymotion simulator is too low to replace the emulator of a higher version of the API. At last

1. Click the plugin icon in eclipse:

2. Select the simulator and start:

3. Then choose an Android project to run it! (You'll find the operation is much smoother than the native simulator ...)

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Installation and configuration of android-simulator genymotion