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#Android 5.1.1 lollipop mac emulator how to#
#Android 5.1.1 lollipop mac emulator for mac os#

Download the following two files to your Downloads folder: Genymotion- ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip and gapps-lp-20141109-signed.zip.

… then type the IP address and hit Enter. … hit Enter, and then type the following (but don’t yet hit Enter) You may have to horizontally expand the Genymotion window if emulating a phone to make it wide enough for the IP address to appear. You’ll see the IP address – something like 192.168.56.101.

Look at the top right of the emulated Android titlebar.

On the first boot this might take some time.

Using Genymotion, start the emulated Android tablet/phone so it boots to the home screen.

Open a Terminal window (it’s in the Utilities folder of the Applications list).

Hopefully the path should fill in automatically beneath, but it’ll be something like /Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk, with your username in place of USERNAME (duh!).

In Genymotion, click the cog icon to access Settings, then select the ADB tab, and select to “Use Custom Android SDK Tools”.

Don’t skip to the next step until it’s finished. Install the Android SDK but beware it’ll take a while.

You might find sites that’ve packaged just adb for download and installation, but I can’t vouch for the safety of the files. This is a huge app of which we only need a tiny component called adb. I find 1 CPU core, 2-3GB of memory and a resolution of 1280×800 for a tablet works fine.

Click the spanner icon alongside the new entry in the list and configure the screen resolution for something sensible, and perhaps drop the number of processors and/or increase the RAM.

Choose to download and install any of the Lollypop images (you can use the “Android Version” filter at the top) – but don’t start it yet once it’s installed!

Start Genymotion and then click the plus “Add” button.

#Android 5.1.1 lollipop mac emulator for mac os#

Visit the Genymotion site, register with them, and download their Android virtualizer for Mac OS X.You can skip some of the steps if you have. The instructions below assume you’ve not got any of the required software installed (which is all either free for personal use, or open source). Notably, the usual drag and drop method of flashing files doesn’t work.Īfter a bit of hacking and researching, I found a way to get it all working, just about – that’s the full Android Lollypop, complete with the proprietary Google Play services such as the Google Play Store.

Recently I wanted to try out the latest Android release – 5.0 Lollipop – but the instructions no longer work, perhaps because of a bug or incompatibility in Genymotion, which is used for the emulation.

#Android 5.1.1 lollipop mac emulator how to#

A while ago I described how to get Android Jelly Bean fully emulated on a Mac.