Android Emulator Change Orientation Download System Images

And then we can do some advanced settings so if you click on there and then some a couple of things that I want to show you is for the camera.

Joining me here with that slopestyle column and the last lessons we got android studio set up.

And so now the next thing I want to do is set up our emulator is all right.

So great thing about Android studio is that you dont even need an Android device to get started developing the emulator works very well there are a few things that you can do with the emulator.

And when I say emulator I mean like a simulator for your device.

All right. So how do we do that we can create some emulators and that is done here in our avi the manager.

Stands for Android virtual device.

Right. Lets go to and click on this and were going to go ahead and create some emulators.

If you dont already have any created and we can click on the plus.

So create a virtual device and then here we have some categories TV where were like watches phones and tablets of course.

And so were going to start with some phones and were going to select here a nexus 6.

And so what is an emulator Well it emulates of pretty much everything in the Android stack.

So if we click on this here new hardware profile we can actually see kind of what is being simulated.

So you device type.

And proximity sensors.

All right. So you know pretty cool stuff.

Android Emulator Change Orientation Download System Images

Here we have some some options and it looks like we dont have any of these system image download system images downloaded.

So I want to go ahead and download the nugget here in case so important to note that if youre using the Hexham which is the the emulator accelerator which you definitely want to then you have to install an X 86 version and then also over here if you check under the target is also very useful to install the ones that have the Google API.

So if youre using anything with like maps or any of the Google services you already have that available to you.

I want to hand click download here and then we are going to accept the terms and conditions and say next and this is going to download and hopefully not take too long.

I want to say finish and now we have an available system image to select.

All right so Im going to select it here and see what this is doing this is just telling the emulator what version of Android to run off of.

And so with since we have this been downloaded now Im going to go ahead and say it and next.

And just real quick when I go back to this it says we recommend these images because they run on they run the fastest and support Google API.

All right. So thats the reason these are recommended.

Thats when this hit next and just kind of some basic information here.

You can if you want it to startup and landscape for whatever reason or portrait you can select a specific one device frame.

This will itll show kind of an Android phone frame around the simulated image just sort of the kind of looks more like a real phone.

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