Android application

Genymotion is a third-party application which supports android application deployment. This “Genymotion Virtual Device” is faster than the usual “Android Virtual Devices”. It comes with a desktop application and Eclipse plugin. Both should be installed in order to test you application through Eclipse IDE.

Install Genymotion

Download and Install Genymotion Windows application:

1. Register at http://www.genymotion.com/ to download the free setup for Windows installation. This version includes “VirtualBox” so that you don’t have to install it seperately.

Install Eclipse Plugin:

1. At Eclipse IDE :

Goto Help –> Install New Software –> Add path http://plugins.genymotion.com/eclipse . It will suggest to install “GenyMobile”.

Once you restart Eclipse IDE after plugin installation, you will see the icon for “Genymotion Virtual Device Manager”

2. Set path to “Genymobile” at Eclipse:

Goto Windows –> Preferences –> Genymobile –> Set path as example: “C:\Program Files\Genymobile\Genymotion”

Now the installation of ” Genymotion” is done. So you can download a “Genymotion Virtual Device” through download manager and start deploying your android applicaton.

Deploy Android Application on Genymotion Virtual Device

Download Genymotion Virtual Device:

(Refer the guide here https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/doc/)

You can use the “Genymotion Virtual Devices Manager” the way similar to the “Android Virtual Device Manager” to create virtual devices. The difference is they provide some virtual devices with predefined specs, and you can select and download the one you wish.

1. Goto –> “Genymotion Virtual Devices Manager” –> New –> Select a virtual device from the “Available Virtual Devices” list –> Next –> It will be prompted to download the required files.

2. Once completed the downloading the new device will be added to your devices list.

Deploy App:

1. Start the device you created “Samsung Galaxy S3 -API 17 – 720×1280”.

2. Once it Up and Running. Select your project –> Config to select running device –> You will see the Genymotion Vitual Device is detected –> Select and Ok.

The app will be installed on the GVD.

Thank You 🙂

There are two types of API s available with Android for a particular version of platform. They are the Android API and the Google API. As an example the Android API level 15 includes Android 4.0.3 API and the Google APIs for the same platform 4.0.3. If you install only the SDK Platform of the Android 4.0.3(API 15) using the Android SDK Manager you can create a normal android application. But if you want to create a Map application you’ll have to install the Google APIs by Google Inc. The reason is that the normal Android API contains only the android.jar and in the Google APIs it provides the maps.jar in addition to the android.jar.

Hello World Android application

You can create a simple android application by following the steps below.

Select File -> new project ->Android ->Android Project -> fill the project details in the new window.
Project name : Hello Android
Select Built target : Android 2.3.3 (API 10) – This will define the target SDK . This is usually the android SDK compiled against and used to indicate version the developer primarily tested and designed for.
Application name: Hello World
Package: example.app
Create Activity : HelloAndroidActivity
Min Version: 4 – This will define minimum platform version supported by the application.