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Features and Emulated Sensors

To simulate various behaviors of your application according to specific use cases, Genymotion provides easy-to-use widgets which emulate the following sensors and features:

Sound Volume Rotate Screen Full-screen File upload Clipboard Camera Battery GPS Capture Identifiers Network Created with Sketch. Phone Created with Sketch. Resolution Disk I/O Created with Sketch. Created with Sketch. Created with Sketch. Navigation Power

Sound volume

You can control the volume of the sound emitted by your virtual device by clicking or

Rotate screen

You can rotate the screen of your virtual device by clicking

Full-screen

You can turn the full-screen mode on or off by clicking

File upload

Installing an .apk or uploading any files from your computer to the virtual device can be achieved with the File Upload widget.

To do so, click and BROWSE to browse for the file you wish to upload.

Tip

You may have to restart your virtual device to see a newly uploaded file.

You can also install the Open GApps package by clicking on INSTALL OPEN GAPPS.

Clipboard

The Clipboard widget allows you to copy and paste text to and from the virtual device.

Copy to the virtual device

  1. Click
  2. Paste your text into the clipboard text field.
  3. From within the virtual device, hold the left mouse button in the field you wish to paste to.
  4. Click Paste as on a real Android device.

Copy from the virtual device

  1. From within the virtual device, select the text you wish to copy and hold the left mouse button.
  2. Select Copy as on a real Android device.
  3. Click , the copied text is displayed in the clipboard text window.
  4. The text is automatically copied to your OS clipboard.

Camera

The Camera widget allows you to send a video stream from a virtual device to the Android system. With this widget, you can test an Android application that uses Android built-in cameras.

The default video stream is a simple video placeholder - you can also use the video stream from a real physical webcam connected or integrated into your computer.

To use the Camera widget, click

Tip

Make sure your camera is allowed to access the virtual device.

Battery

The Battery widget allows you to test how your application reacts with different battery charge levels and states of charge.

To use the Battery widget:

  1. Click
  2. Modify the charge level using the slider or enter a value in the Charge level field.

  3. Modify the state of charge by checking the State of charge box:

    • Check to activate the Charging state.
    • Uncheck to activate the Discharging state.

GPS

The GPS widget allows real-time activation and modifications of a position, accuracy and bearing.

To use the GPS widget:

  1. Click
  2. Set a value for the following fields:
Field Description Value range
Latitude Sets the latitude you wish to simulate. -90° to 90°
Longitude Sets the longititude you wish to simulate. -180° to 180°
Altitude Sets the altitude you wish to simulate. -10000m to 10000m
Accuracy Sets the accuracy using the slider or by entering a value. 0m to 200m
Bearing Sets the bearing by using the compass or entering a value. 0° to 359.99°

Note

Many applications do not rely on GPS orientation, but use the device accelerometer or gyroscope to determine the device bearing instead. These features are not supported yet.

You can also define a location using the Map button. Once a location is selected, click Capture to retrieve its coordinates.

Capture

The Capture widget allows you to take a screenshot or screencast of virtual devices. This way, you can broadcast images or videos of your applications.

To open the widget, click and select an action:

  • Click to take a screenshot of your virtual device display.
  • Click to record your device display. Click again to stop recording.

When done, select a folder on your computer to save your screenshot or video.

Identifiers

The Identifiers widget shows Android ID and Device ID/IMEI/MEID. You can view or edit these values, without having to reboot your virtual device.

To use the Identifiers widget, click .

Click GENERATE to generate random values.

Info

  • You cannot set an empty Android ID.
  • Valid characters for setting device ID/IMEI/MEID are lower-case and upper-case letters [a-z, A-Z], digits [0-9], dots [ . ], dashes [ - ] and underscores [ _ ].

Network

The Network widget allows you to test how your application reacts with different network quality and performance types.

To test network quality and performance types:

  1. Click
  2. Select a network profile from the Network Speed drop-down list. Network profiles and their corresponding values are listed in the table below.
Profile Upload speed Download speed Upload/Download delay (in ms) Packet loss DNS delay (in ms)
No data 0Kb/s 0Kb/s 0 100% 0
GPRS 40Kb/s 40Kb/s 500 0.01% 1000
Edge 200Kb/s 240Kb/s 400 0.01% 800
3G 1.5Mb/s 7.2Mb/s 100 0.01% 200
4G 5.5Mb/s 17.9Mb/s 50 0.01% 100
4G
(high DNS delay)		 5.5Mb/s 17.9Mb/s 50 0.01% 3000
4G
(high packet losses)		 5.5Mb/s 17.9Mb/s 50 10% 100
Wifi 33.0Mb/s 40.0Mb/s 0 0% 0

Phone

Warning

Phone is only simulated - it is not possible to call or send messages to real mobile phones or tablets with Genymotion.

The Phone widget allows you to test applications relying on telephony features and observe their behavior when receiving a call or a text message.

To use the Phone widget:

  1. Click Created with Sketch.
  2. Enter an incoming phone number.
  3. Click Call to simulate a call, or enter some text and click Send message to simulate a text message.

Tip

Text messages are displayed in the virtual device via a notification, but they can also be read in the Messaging application.

Resolution

The Resolution feature allows you to increase or decrease the resolution of the displayed content in your virtual device.

To use this feature, click Created with Sketch. and select a resolution between 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p.

Disk I/O

The Disk I/O widget allows you to emulate devices with slow internal storage. It can be very handy if your app requires reading large amount of data from the disk such as gallery apps that load locally stored images or game apps that load large files.

To simulate high or poor disk performance:

  1. Click

  2. From the Profile drop-down list, select a type of device:

    • High-end device: Read speed limit 200MiB per second.
    • Mid-range device: Read speed limit 100MiB per second.
    • Low-end device: Read speed limit 50MiB per second.
    • Custom device: Enter the read speed limit you wish to emulate in MiB.

  3. Click Update.

Tip

When switching from a device profile to another, the disk cache is automatically cleared. You can force clearing the cache by clicking Clear Cache.

The navigation widgets emulate Android navigation buttons:

  • Click Created with Sketch. to list recently accessed activities and tasks.
  • Click Created with Sketch. to navigate to Android Home page.
  • Click Created with Sketch. to kill the current activity and resumes the previous one.

Power

The Power Widget simulates a real device power button:

  • Click to put the device to sleep.
  • Click and hold the mouse button to show the Android power off menu (reboot, shutdown, etc.).

Warning

Using the power off button to shutdown the virtual device is not recommended and may cause unwanted extra charges. See Stopping a virtual device for safer methods.

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