. Total: 0. Android OS was originally supposed to run on handheld devices, smartphones to be more appropriate. The open nature of Android allowed developers to mould it for any device they wanted. Back in 2009, we saw a company named BlueStacks coming with an Android Emulator named BlueStacks App Player.
This company laid the foundation for Android Emulators that would allow running Android OS on a computer. The idea of Android Emulators for computers expanded exponentially since then. Right now, we have a huge number of Android Emulators on the market. All the emulators serve the same purpose with their own unique features. Among the Android Emulators, the Andy Android Emulator is one prominent name.
Contents. A flashback of Andy (Formerly known as Andyroid) Andy Android Emulator was launched between late 2011 and early 2012.
To know How to install Andyroid Emulator on Mac OS, read its FAQ from here. Also Read: How to Download & Install Clash Of Clans on Andy Emulator. #3 Droid4X – The Best Gaming Emulator for Mac: Droid4x is another Best Android Emulator for Mac.
The idea behind launching Andy was to connect the mobile and computer users. Andy bridges the gap between a smartphone and a computer. Andy makes the use of Android 6.0 Marshmallow to run on. On a computer, it just runs like a virtual tablet. Andy has the stock Android look. If you have ever had an experience of running Vanilla Android, you will realise that Andy has quite the same look.
It shows you the dock on the home screen just like you would see on a screen of a tablet powered by pure Android. The app drawer is also the same. It’s a complete Android device, but it’s totally virtual. Now the question that may or may not crawl through your mind is, why you would use Andy or any other Android emulator when you have a phone? There are several answers to one same question. Whether you need to run your favourite games, communication applications, any tool or any other app, Andy is going to run it on your computer.
With Andy, you can enjoy the resolution of a game on a bigger screen. There aren’t going to be any compatibility issues, no storage issues, no nothing. As far as communication applications are concerned, you can run any application like WhatsApp, WhatsApp for Business, Viber, IMO and others using Andy. If you do not always want to pick up your phone to connect with your friends, you can still do it using your laptop right in front of you. There are many applications which are not available for operating systems like Windows and Mac. If an application is available for Android, it means you can run it on your computer as well.
So, if you have ever wanted to get a desktop version of an Android application, you can simply emulate it into your computer. If we keep discussing the reasons to use an Android emulator, we will never be able to push the breaks. For now, we will simply get back to what we were here for. Andy works pretty well on the Windows operating system. We have already published several guides on Andy. So far we have discussed the methods to install Andy on previous versions of Windows.
Today, we are going to have a look at the tutorial to install Andy Android Emulator on Windows 10. The step-by-step guide will help you to download Andy for Windows 10 and then install Andy on Windows 10. After installing Andy, you will also learn how to run applications or play games in Andy on Windows 10. How to install Andy Android Emulator on Windows 10 Do you know why Andy doesn’t launch on Windows 10 computers? That’s because it needs virtualization technology enabled. Before installing Andy, I will tell you guys how to enable VT on your Windows 10 computer.
How to enable Virtualization Technology (VT) on Windows 10 for Andy. Click on the search button in the Windows 10 taskbar and type “Advanced Startup”. Now from the Advanced Startup settings page, click on Restart. As your computer restarts and shows you the options, select “Troubleshoot”. Now under the Troubleshoot options, click on Advanced options.
Under Advanced options, click on UEFI Firmware Settings Restart. This will restart your computer in UEFI (BIOS) mode. Now your computer will reboot in the BIOS. On the BIOS screen, press the arrow key to enter “System configuration”. On the System configuration screen, you will have the Virtualization Technology.
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You can select it and then Enable it if it’s already disabled. How to install Andy on Windows 10 now.
Download. Launch the Andy setup file. On the screen, click Next.
In the Next screen, Andy will ask you to install an antivirus as a part of their partnership. On this screen, you can click “Decline”. Now Andy will start downloading its required files which are of about 500MB. Let Andy download the files, once done, it will start installing the emulator automatically. After installation, Andy will automatically start as well. It can take a few minutes to launch.
Now you can setup Andy using your Google account. Once you have added an account, open the app drawer in Andy, and then open the Play Store to install the apps and games. You can find the installed apps and games in the app drawer as well. If you have any questions, ask them below!
How to Install iOS Simulator and Android Emulator on Mac for testing and debugging your websites and webapps How to Install iOS Simulator and Android Emulator on Mac for testing and debugging your websites and webapps Introduction Mobile first! It became true in the end of 2016 when a mobile web-browsing eventually overtook a desktop one. This brings new challenges for web designers and engineers. Besides the adapted for mobile devices user interface, we also should ensure it works perfectly on a great variety of devices, screens, operation systems and web-browser engines. Several years ago, in a 'desktop era' it was enough to install all the web-browsers on the developer's machine and review a website in them.
Nowadays we also need mobile browsers which don't exist on desktop machines. Google Chrome web-browser has an emulation mode, however, it basically resizes the viewport and emulates touch events.
It works on the same Chrome's engine even if you 'emulate' iPhone. So it might be enough just to see how a website looks on small screens, but it's never a real emulation. Fortunately, we don't need to build large farms of mobile devices in our offices. The major mobile platform manufacturers, Apple and Google, provide great developer tools which include the real simulators and emulators of the mobile devices with great configuration possibilities. In this blog post I'm going to describe step-by-step how to install and configure iOS simulators and Android emulators. Prerequirements Since iOS developer tools are only available on macOS, this is the main pre-requirement: you need a Mac to test your website in iOS Simulator.
Android developer tools are cross-platform and it's possible to install them on Mac, Windows and Linux. Install iOS Simulator iOS Simulator is a part of Xcode. As a Mac user you can download and install it for free from.
It downloads around 5.5 GB, so the installation takes some time depending on your network connection. After the installation is completed, launch Xcode from the Launchpad, accept license and wait for some additional installations. Finally, you'll see the Xcode welcome window. Since we are not iOS app developers, we don't need to create any projects there.
As web developers all we need is just to run the iOS simulator. Click Xcode in menu bar, Open Developer Tool and Simulator then. You've got the new iPhone X for free! This is a fully-featured simulation of iOS device. Check Hardware menu for all the capabilities.
Adding more versions and devices in iOS Simulator You can change both the version of iOS and the device 'hardware' which is running it. Open Device menu item under Hardware in menu bar. There is a list of currently available operating systems. The submenu of the selected operation system is the device to run. If you need more versions of simulated iOS, return to Xcode, select Preferences. In the Xcode menu bar item, switch to the Components tab and you'll see a list of all the available iOS versions. Click a small arrow down icon near the simulator name to download the version you need.
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The simulator images are pretty large, so it will take some time to download and space in your Mac storage. Is the simulator accurate? Can you trust it? Does it simulates the real device? Once upon a time I debugged a very specific issue.
A user reported our webapp crashed the web-browser on just released iPhone 6 Plus. It worked good on any other device except for this iPhone. We didn't have this device in the team, so the issue was really hard to reproduce and fix. We updated Xcode to get the latest versions of the simulators and finally we reproduced the issue on the simulator. So yes, I am convinced that it's pretty accurate since it emulates even crashes and iOS bugs.
Install Android Emulator As in case with iOS, Android Emulator is a part of Android developer tools. As the first step you need to download Android Studio. Run Android Studio once it's downloaded and installed. It will ask your a few configuration questions and install some additional components. I suggest to select Custom installation type and check Android Virtual Device. Then continue the installation leaving the default settings and wait for downloading of components. After it's completed, you'll see the Android Studio welcome window.
Despite the fact we need the emulator only, it's required to start a new Android project there. I just entered Emulator as a project name, add no activity and left the other settings default. Need to wait a few more downloads and installs and get the Android Studio workspace. No, it's not a finish yet. It might be just early release issues, but just after install from scratch, Android Studio still required to install some missing components: android-26 platform first and Build Tools 26.0.2 later. Just click the Install links and follow the installer screens. After all activity is done, there is a clean Android Studio workspace.
You can find Android emulator under Tools - Android - AVD Manager menu. It opens Android Virtual Devices (AVD) Manager window. You can notice a warning there: HAXM is not installed. This is Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager, and it's required to run the emulator. However, at the moment it doesn't support automatic installation on macOS High Sierra (10.13), so you need to install it manually. Hopefully, they'll fix it in the future versions. Open Finder and navigate to /Library/Android/sdk/extras/intel/HardwareAcceleratedExecutionManager/.
There is a file IntelHAXM6.2.1.dmg. Run it and follow the installer instructions. During the installation, macOS might show a warning that the kernel extension is blocked by security reasons. Then you need to open Security & Privacy window in the System Preferences and click Allow button. Return back to AVD Manager and click Refresh button in the bottom right corner. The warning message should disappear.
We are good to go! AVD Manager already has a preconfigured Android emulator of the latest Android version.
Just double click it. The emulator has control buttons at the right side of the screen.
It has a complete set of emulations just like iOS simulator. Adding more versions and devices in Android Emulator To get more device configurations and Android versions, click Create Virtual Device button.
There you can select either a ready-to-use device hardware preset or to create your own hardware profile. On the next step you should select the version of Android which you'd like to run on the selected hardware. You'll need to download the older versions of Android before usage.
Check out the x86 images to get more versions to use. Click Next and Finish on the next screen and you'll get the new configured virtual device which is ready to run on the Android Emulator. Debugging in iOS Simulator Debugging capabilities are essentials for the engineers.
Before we just ran the simulators and emulators and could see and interact with UI. Now we need to get the console, to inspect and to debug. For iOS simulator it's possible using Safari web-browser. Firstly, ensure that you have Developer menu activated: in Safari menu open Preferences. And switch to Advanced tab.
At the very bottom of the window check Show Develop menu in menu bar. Now run the simulator, open a required website in the iOS Safari, then open Safari on your macOS. In the Simulator menu under Develop menu there is an item related to the opened in iOS Safari website. It opens a fully-featured Safari Web Inspector with the loaded in the simulator website. Debugging in Android Emulator Debugging websites in Android emulator web-browser is possible in desktop version of Google Chrome web-browser.
However, this feature works starting with Android 4.4. Sad but true. Run the emulator (Android version 4.4 or above) and open a website in the system web-browser. Then open your desktop Google Chrome and open the Developer Tools.
In 'three dots' menu of the developer tools, find More tools and ensure you have Remote devices enabled. It opens the related tab.
If your emulator is up and running, you'll see Android SDK built for x86 - connected in the device list. Click it, find the page you want to debug and then click Inspect. Finally, it opens a separate window with the fully-featured developer tools with the required page loaded. Please note that if you’d like to open a website which is running on your local machine server (its address is usually localhost or 127.0.0.1), in the Android emulator this address won’t be valid. The right address you should enter to access the local webserver on your machine is 10.0.2.2.