How to emulate a gyroscope in an Android Emulator

Gyroscope is newly supported in the Emulator of Android Studio 3.0, released to the Canary Channel on 5/17/17. Note that (as of today) Android Studio 2.3.3 is the latest official (i.e. “stable”) version. Here is how you setup the Preview Version of Android Studio, which can exist concurrently with the official version. Note that running the emulator out of … Read more

Emulator for Amazon Kindle

Quoting the documentation: It is possible to configure a standard Android emulator to simulate the Kindle Fire device platform. You should configure your emulator with the following characteristics: Width: 600px Height: 1024px (note that the device will reserve 20px of the height to display a soft key menu, yielding a height of 1004px when in full-screen … Read more

How do emulators work and how are they written?

Emulation is a multi-faceted area. Here are the basic ideas and functional components. I’m going to break it into pieces and then fill in the details via edits. Many of the things I’m going to describe will require knowledge of the inner workings of processors — assembly knowledge is necessary. If I’m a bit too … Read more