Genymotion Android emulator

[Warren Samples]

On 07/20/2013 12:59 PM, Richmond wrote:
> On 07/20/2013 08:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Richmond-
>>
>> Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10:02:38 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Setting the thing up was, inevitably, slightly difficult as,
>>> inevitably, the setup instructions were slightly wrong (but that is
>>> normal for Linux).
>> As I am about to install this thing next week, would you care to share
>> any insights about that process?
>>
>
> Well . . .
>
> The first thing is to get VirtualBox sorted out on your system.
>
> The second thing is that Genymotion looks for the SDK which is hard to
> locate:
>
> ~/android-sdks/sdk  (where '~' is your Home folder),
>
> don't let yourself be distracted by 'android-sdk-linux'
>
> after that it goes "all funny" about something that is supposed to be in
> the /etc/init.d folder, but isn't; so you have to do some fiddling around,
> and quite how the thing worked because of my fiddling around I cannot
> really say.
>
> After that things seem comparatively straightforward, and I suspect the
> best way to
> get an Android standalone onto one of the devices is by uploading it to
> some website
> and then downloading it from inside the emulated device.
>
> Unfortunately right now I've got a lot of "extraneous stuff" on my
> plate, but I hope, come
> Sunday night I will be able to upload some reasonably pretty pictures to
> the Forum.
>
> Richmond.
>

Apparently installation woes are a YMMV kind of thing. I just installed 
without any headscratching at all. Just clicked through the dialogs as 
they came up and I was all set and running.

Warren