
Screenshot – Takes a screenshot of the content currently displayed on the device screen.Rotate Left/Right – Rotates the emulated device between portrait and landscape orientations.
ANDROID 5 EMULATOR WITH PLAYSTORE SIMULATOR

ANDROID 5 EMULATOR WITH PLAYSTORE ANDROID

The emulator toolbar (Figure 5-2) provides access to a range of options relating to the appearance and behavior of the emulator environment.Įach button in the toolbar has associated with it a keyboard accelerator which can be identified either by hovering the mouse pointer over the button and waiting for the tooltip to appear, or via the help option of the extended controls panel. Fortunately, Android Studio 2 introduced an enhanced emulator environment providing significant improvements in terms of configuration flexibility and overall performance and further enhancements have been made in subsequent releases.īefore the next chapter explores testing on physical Android devices, this chapter will take some time to provide an overview of the Android Studio AVD emulator and highlight many of the configuration features that are available to customize the environment. Regarded by many developers as slow, inflexible and unreliable, the emulator was long overdue for an overhaul. The Android Virtual Device (AVD) emulator environment bundled with Android Studio 1.x was an uncharacteristically weak point in an otherwise reputable application development environment. Purchase the fully updated Android Studio Bumble Bee Edition of this publication in eBook ($29.99) or Print ($46.99) formatĪndroid Studio Bumble Bee Essentials - Java Edition Print and eBook (PDF) editions contain 94 chapters and over 800 pages You are reading a sample chapter from the Android Studio 3.2 Edition of this book.
