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Thursday, April 2, 2015

How to Setup Genymotion “A faster Android emulator” for Android Studio

Hey are you really worrying about your android emulator. So this is a real solution for that .Go to Genymotion website & create an account. https://www.genymotion.com/#!/

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Then go to this link and download genymotion for windows (https://www.genymotion.com/#!/download )

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If you have not installed vitualbox in your machine get genymotion with virtualbox(117.47MB).As the first step install genymotion in your machine.

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Now open genymotion and click “+” sign on top of the window.Then sign in to your account for accessing all virtual devices in Genymotion.

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After creating your virtual device in genymotion what you need to do is adding genymotion plugin into android studio.To do that Open your android studio and go to settings.

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Type the word plugin in the search box of the setting window .Then click on “Brows Repositories”.Then search for “Genymotion”.

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Then click on green color button call “install plugin” and it will request you to restart android studio.After that you will find a small button in your menu bar call “genymotion device manager”.For the first time when you click on this icon it will ask for the path for genymotion folder .In my case it was “C:\Program Files\Genymobile\Genymotion “.

After you finish that next time it will show you below window which contains all the virtual devices you have created.

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Select a virtual device you like and start it.After you run your project you will get choose device window and there you will find your genymotion virtual device under “choose a running device” option.
 
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Almost done J !!!