Tool set for Android virtual Environment genymotion Complete Installation Tutorial

Genymotion provides a toolset for Android virtual environments. It is believed that many Android developers have been fed up with the slow, inefficient experience and the official simulator of the underground. If you don't have a physical machine and don't want to endure the torture of an official simulator, Genymotion will be a great choice for you. Genymotion supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS, easy to install and use, so let's experience the thrill of the artifact.

Genymotion characteristics

Provide the best Android simulation experience

Supports OpenGL acceleration to deliver the best 3D performance experience

Support for installing apps from Goole play

Full Screen support

Simulator control

Supports simultaneous launch of multiple emulators

Supports sensor management, such as battery status, Gps,accelerator accelerator

Support for Shell control simulator

Device Management

Easy to install

Compatible with Microsoft Windows 32/64 bits, Mac OSX 10.5+ and Linux 32/64 bits

Support for configuring emulator parameters such as screen resolution, memory size, number of CPUs

Support for launching the emulator from eclipse

Support for booting virtual machines directly from eclipse

Environmental requirements

Operating system requirements

Need to meet one of the operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Microsoft Windows Vista (+/-), Microsoft Windows 7 (+ or 6 4 bits), Linux ubuntu 12.04, linux ubuntu 12.10 and Mac OS X 10.X;

System Environment Requirements

OpenGL 2.0 Supported

CPU supports Vt-x or AMD-V virtualization, which is enabled via BIOS setup

At least 512MB of memory

Provide at least 100MB of hard disk space for genymotion installation, at least 2GB hard disk space for genymotion virtual appliance

Available Network connections (for installation and update)

System display resolution not less than 1024x768

Application Requirements

Oracle VirtualBox >= 4.1 (the higher the version, the better)

Android Development Environment: Sdk,eclipse+adt

installation process

Since the completed Android development environment is already installed on my machine, I will not introduce the basic development environment of Android, the students who need can refer to the Android Developer website (http://developer.android.com/ sdk/installing/bundle.html);

My installation test environment is based on Linux Mint 13 (based on Ubunt so, genymotion probably installed, experience, is it faster than you think?  Ha ha! U 12.04) 64-bit

Registered

To https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/customer/login/page registration, submit the registration by mail your account, registration success can download genymotion related tools.

Note that this page may not open because of the Great Wall. Students are advised to use a VPN or proxy.

Download and install VirtualBox

To https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads official download installation, as well as hit the corresponding patch, such as VirtualBox 4.2.16 Oracle VM virtualbox Extension Pack.

Download and install Genymotion

Download Genymotion corresponding version

Installing Genymotion

Execute the command.

chmod +x [Installerpath]/genymotion.bin

[Installerpath]/genymotion.bin

After the installation is successful, you will see the Installerpath

Experience Genymotion

Start Genymotion

Use

Main window, click the "Add" button

Click on the "Connect" button

Enter the registered user name and password and click the Connect button to connect

Select the virtual machine device you want to add and click "Add"

Click "Next"

After the download simulator is complete, click "Next"

Name the emulator you have created

Back to the main window, select an added emulator such as "Nexus 7" and click on "Play" to launch the simulator

The Nexus 7 starts very fast, completes in seconds, and the simulator's speed is satisfying and the operation is smooth.

Open the VirtualBox program and you will see a list of the Android virtual devices you have created, which is as easy as operating a normal virtual machine.

Eclipse Plug-in installation

Genymotion also supports the Eclipse IDE, which makes it much easier for us to use genymotion to develop applications. There are two ways to install plug-ins, which are described below:

Online installation via Update site

Start Eclipse,help->install New Software...->add

Fill in the information:

Name:genymobile

Location:http://plugins.genymotion.com/eclipse

Next, like the process of installing ADT, the guidance is completed

Manual Installation

Close Eclipse

Download Eclipse Plugin https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/launchpad/download/

Place the downloaded plug-in jar file in the plugins directory under your Eclipse installation directory and start eclipse

Plug-in use

Click the icon on the Eclipse toolbar to launch the plugin

Specify Genymotion installation directory and SDK directory for first use