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For questions about emulation and emulators, where a computer program is emulating (imitating) the behavior of another program or hardware device.

An emulator is a system which is designed to perform the duties of a different system. An emulator is distinct from a simulator (an emulator is intended to replicate the external behaviour of a system, whereas a simulator replicates the internal behaviour). See:

Emulators are commonly used to allow programs written for one system to be run on a different system. This is desirable when developing for a wide variety of target platforms, or when maintaining old programs designed for deprecated hardware.

One type of emulator that emulates a computer is called a . These are used by companies so they can tests their apps on the emulator rather than on an actual hardware.

Examples of some emulators:

Questions in this tag should relate in some way to the implementation or usage of a computer system which is an emulator.

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How do I rotate the Android emulator display?

How can I rotate the Android emulator display to see it in landscape mode?
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How do emulators work and how are they written?

How do emulators work? When I see NES/SNES or C64 emulators, it astounds me. Do you have to emulate the processor of those machines by interpreting its particular assembly instructions? What else goes into it? How are they typically designed? Can…
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Simulator or Emulator? What is the difference?

While I understand what simulation and emulation mean in general, I almost always get confused about them. Assume that I create a piece of software that mimics existing hardware/software, what should I call it? A simulator or an emulator? Could…
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Android emulator not able to access the internet

I know that similar questions have been asked before, but my problem is new only after installing Android Studio 2.3, the latest version in March 2017. I have several years experience developing Android applications, and I have never encountered…
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How do I change screen orientation in the Android emulator?

How do we change emulator screen orientation to landscape or portrait?
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Making the Android emulator run faster

The Android emulator is a bit sluggish. For some devices, like the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One, the app runs faster in the actual device than the emulator. This is a problem when testing games and visual effects. How do you make the emulator…
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How to increase storage for Android Emulator? (INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE)

I get this sometimes(not often) for one of my projects, couple of classes only Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE How do I increase emulator's storage?
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Waiting for Target Device to Come Online

I recently updated to Android Studio 2.3, and now when I try to run the application, the emulator does not come online. It times out after 300 seconds. Additionally, The app has been experiencing a FATAL EXCEPTION ERROR (OOM), and I am not sure how…
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Android emulator: How to monitor network traffic?

How do I monitor network traffic sent and received from my android emulator?
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How to run .APK file on emulator

Possible Duplicate: How do you install an APK file in the Android emulator? I download an APK file and I want to run it on an Android emulator but I don't know how. Please help me. Thanks!
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Android YouTube app Play Video Intent

I have created a app where you can download YouTube videos for android. Now, I want it so that if you play a video in the YouTube native app you can download it too. To do this, I need to know the Intent that the YouTube native app puts out in order…
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How do I remove an image-system for avd file in Android Studio?

I want to remove the api 16 of jelly bean but there is not remove button how can I do that. image file is very big size file so I need don't many system image file
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How to resize the AVD emulator (in Eclipse)?

I'm writing my first Android app for a small business that has some Droid phones. I set up an AVD for the phone with the right resolution: 854 pixels high. I'm working on a MacBook Pro with a max screen resolution 900 pixels high, so when the…
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Manually put files to Android emulator SD card

I'm just having trouble with getting my emulator SD card work... I created a new AVD device with a new SD card. So how to put data onto it? I found the "correct" file to be mounted on Daemon tools, but is corrupt or simply not readable... It would…
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Is there a real solution to debug cordova apps

I spent the last two days trying to figure out how to debug an HTML5 app I created using Cordova 3.2 and deployed to an Android 2.3 device. All the articles/posts I've seen provide hacks rather than real solutions :( and most of the time, none of…
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