Android Question an Android emulator

[antonomase]

Hi,

Not really a question.

Just to say that I tried some Android emulators and the one which runs quickly and without problem is Genymotion.
It's a virtual box and you can install some devices. To test the android application, just drap and drop the apk file from objects dir (windows) to the download dir (Android).

 

[sorex]

thanks for the info, but it requires sign up just to get to the download and it doesn't mention if it requeres OpenGL hardware or not (don't have that)

 

[TomA]

I have been using YouWave (Basic version - Android 2.3.4) with great success. There is also a "Home" version - Android 3.13 - released sometime after I got the Basic version. I use it for my basic testing - it is as fast as a real device and makes testing easy. I connect to B4A via port 5558 (batch file command of "adb connect 127.0.0.1:5558". It works very well.

The one limitation is mentioned on their download page:
"If VirtualBox is installed on your pc, YouWave can only be installed on Windows guests, not on your host machines. Please do not install YouWave on the host machine unless you have VirtualBox uninstalled."
but aside from that, it works well for testing.
Check http://www.youwave.com/ for details.

 

[antonomase]

I don't understand the utility of the basic version of YouWave. For just $5 more, you have a very better version.

 

[TomA]

I don't understand the utility of the basic version of YouWave. For just $5 more, you have a very better version.

It is not a better version, it is just a new version based on Android 3.13 instead of Android 2.3.4. When I purchased the Basic version, the Home version did not exist. Since I have a tablet that runs Android 4.0.4 and my phone is running Android 4.2.1, there did not seem much point in updating YouWave - I use it for most of my initial testing (proving my app will run on that older version of Android), then do additional testing on my tablet and phone so I can then be pretty sure that my app will work well on all versions in between.