The phone shuts down and the emulator closes. And if you are wondering, like I was, what would happen if you disabled charging and set battery level to 0%, I have an answer for you. Now you can set several options like charge level, charger connection, battery status, and even battery health. You probably noticed that the only way so set the battery level on the old emulator was through the command line. If you've always wanted to test your application in roaming, on EDGE data connection, now you can do it from the comfort of your chair instead of going to another country. Now you can choose between several network types and set the status of voice and data service. Testing different cellular network types has been a real pain until now. This is a great and easy way to test location-based applications. With the new emulator, you can easily fake users' movement by importing GPX or KML file. If you click on the three dots, an extended controls window with new features will open. The first thing you'll notice is the new side toolbar which has some default controls. If you've tried out the old Android emulator, then you know that launching it used to take at least several minutes. But I didn't, it actually loads that fast. The first time I started it, I thought I did something wrong. When you start the emulator, it loads in less than 10 seconds. I took it for a spin and here's what it offers: New features Speeeeeed As it turns out, their engineers had been working on a brand new Android emulator, that was released to the public a few days ago. There is no straightforward way to add them to the emulator and you have to do it for every emulator you create. However, Genymotion has a big problem - the lack of support for Google applications.

We wrote a blog post about it, so if you want you can read it here. That's why, 2 years ago we switched to Genymontion which is both fast and reliable. It took ages to start, and even when (or if) it started, it would crash a lot and applications would load forever. The emulator was so bad that it was almost impossible to use it.

For years, Android developers have been struggling with the Android emulator.

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