Genymotion Emulator For Mac

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The Android emulator is aimed toward professional app and game developers along with people with advanced technological knowledge. It enables you to test apps on a wide array of virtual devices in different versions of Android. The Android emulator is compatible with Android Studio as well as Android SDK. Genymotion Virtual Devices are equipped with a large choice of widgets and sensors that can be manipulated to simulate any real life situation or scenario: location, SMS & calls, network & baseband, etc.

In this blog, we will understand how to setup Genymotion Android Emulators.

  • Genymotion is an easy to use yet very powerful Mac app that can emulate different Android devices and place them on your desktop. This way, you can test your Android apps in a more streamlined and time efficient manner. Easy to setup emulator for the Android operating system.
  • A bit different from other Android emulators for Mac, Genymotion is a cloud-based emulator – which allows access through multiple apps. Unlike Bluestacks or Nox that draw attention to the graphics processing capability, being ideal for Android games, Genymotion is.

Concept of Emulators is very good for some one who needs access to Android OS without worrying about hardware. But Google’s android emulators face some problems. Althogh it was claimed that with latest release there are significant improvements but its not true. Two main problems are:

  1. Google’s emulators are very slow and they take ages to boot up and also sleep very frequently, so they are not idle candidates for some one who needs to switch on or off emulators frequently.
  2. Also they eat lot of RAM, so if you have 2-3 Emulators open at the same time, your machine will become very slow. Any testers would need multiple emulators open at the same time.

Genymotion Emulators (https://www.genymotion.com/) have solved above problems very efficiently and thus i recommend using them for automation. Genymotion is free (basic plan) and they have some paid plans also. For this blog we will use free Genymotion.

Follow these steps to setup Genymotion emulators on mac OS:

Step 1) Go to https://www.genymotion.com/pricing-and-licensing/ and click on ‘Individual’ Tab and click ‘Get Started’.

Step 2) Register with your credentials, and login.

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Step 3) Click on Download. wait for download to finish.

Step 4) Install the .dmg file and move it to ‘Applications’

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Step 5) Launch ‘Genymotion.app’ from applications.

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Step 6) The Genymotion application starts. A dialog prompts you to “Add a first virtual device”. Click Yes.

Step 7) Multiple devices are pre-listed. Select a device of your choice and click Next. Follow through the prompts.

Step 8) Once the device is created, select it and click Start.

Step 9) Device will start in no time. It has all the apps provided by Google’s Emulators and these emulator work with all ‘ADB’ commands also.

Step 10) Now go to terminal, and type this command to check the device:

adb devices

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Step 11) Now to install the app, use these commands on termial

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App will be installed on Genymotion emulator. Enjoy!!

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Once you start using Genymotion Emulators, you will really fall in love with these.