Other Feedback wanted - B4A Avd Manager

Erel

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• Dec 25, 2017

• #21

An Schi said:

Does this mean, that AVD won't work with my amd cpu? (phenom 2 3x 3.4ghz)

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Currently B4A AVD Manager creates AVDs based on Intel images. However you are not limited to B4A AVD Manager. You can create the emulators with the old manager or Android Studio and they will work.

The advantage of the intel images is that they are fast. The emulator is very slow without acceleration.

 

Last edited: Dec 25, 2017

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MikeH

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• Dec 25, 2017

• #22

Are there plans for this AVD manager to be able to create custom images?

 

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Erel

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• Dec 25, 2017

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At this point the focus is on making it work reliably. More features will be added in the future.

 

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Emme Developer

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• Dec 27, 2017

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Erel said:

Thank you.

I think that I know what causes it. It will be fixed.


Do you see avdmanager.bat in <android-sdk>\tools\bin?

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Sorry for the late reply. No, i have not it

 

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Erel

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• Dec 27, 2017

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avdmanager.zip is included in sdk-tools-windows.zip file.
Try to download it again and unzip it in a new folder

 

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Cableguy

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• Dec 27, 2017

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quick question... This tool only replaces ADVmanager in creating and launching the emulator, but not the emulator itself, right?

 

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Erel

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• Dec 28, 2017

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That's true. The emulator itself is part of Android SDK.

The AVD created will be fast as it is based on the intel system image.

 

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• Jan 4, 2018

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avd manager from android AVD tab works. AVD manager internal B4a struggles with not found avdmanager.bat
This file is not in the bin dir
i can launch nougat from android AVD tab.

edit downloaded the sdk tools again, and the avdmanager.bat is there.
Next problem is bunch of errors
To be continued

Edit2: seems to working. Reinstalled tools

 

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• Mar 17, 2018

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Please include in line 112 of AVDManager source the "google_apis_playstore" in the array in order to be able to create AVDs with google play services in API 24 and up

 

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Erel

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• Mar 18, 2018

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Google based AVDs are already supported: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...-20-adds-support-for-google-based-avds.87832/

 

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• Mar 18, 2018

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Erel said:

Google based AVDs are already supported: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...-20-adds-support-for-google-based-avds.87832/

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I agree, but if you want to use images with google play, they are not shown in the platform combobox. I modified the above version of sdk manager in line 112 to be:
For Each abi As String In Array("default", "google_apis", "android-wear","google_apis_playstore")
and now I can have AVDs with images with playstore

 

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Erel

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• Mar 18, 2018

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Will be added.

 

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