Introducing with Android development — Configuring an emulator
Let’s go to configure an emulator device to run our apps??? You’ll see how simple it is using the AVD in Android Studio.
In the Android Studio IDE, we need to access the AVD (Android Virtual Device Manager) by clicking in the button showing below or entering in the menu ‘Tools’ — ‘AVD Manager’.
After that, a screen to create a new virtual device will appear. Click in ‘Create Virtual Device…’.
You might select the device according your necessity. There’re some device definitions which you can use to create your emulator, like some real devices as Pixel and Nexus!!!
We can create devices with definitions of TVs, phones, wear and tablets as you can see in the left side of this screen configuration. Other important point that you need to know, is that, you can create your custom device or import some device profile if you have one.
Select a device definition in the category ‘Phone’ and click in ‘Next’.
In the next step, choose the API Level that you need work with. There’re some API Levels recommended as you can see. If you need, download it and click in ‘Next’ to continue to the last step.
Now, we can set the device name, orientation, if we’ll go to use hardwares like camera, the memory RAM size available, etc. You can set some advanced configurations by clicking in ‘Show Advanced Settings’. After your configs, finally click in ‘Finish’.
With our device emulator configured, run it by clicking in the button to launch it.
In instants the emulator will appear and it’ll ready to run our apps.
Thanks, and see you in the next post!
