Genymotion Android emulator

[Richmond]

On 07/20/2013 09:30 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> 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.

That makes me very happy for you.

I suspect the woes are not YMMV at all, but possibly TMMBDAU problems

( TMMBDAU = That Man Mathewson Being Difficult As Usual )

or just the simple fact that as Linux is just SO customisable, and 
seductively customisable at that,
that it is a bit infra dig to expect every system to deal with 
Genymotion smoothly.

Certainly, now that I have Genymotion up and running, it is a wonderful 
thing, and
well worth any 'extra' work that may crop up.

Richmond.

>
> Warren
>
>
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