Changelog

2026

January 21, 2026

The following official arm64 images have been updated to ver.3.5.0.
Android 14.0 arm64 image has been updated to ver.3.5.0.
Android 13.0 arm64 image has been updated to ver.3.5.0.
Android 12.1 arm64 image has been updated to ver.3.5.0.
Android 12.0 arm64 image has been updated to ver.3.5.0.
For more information about improvements, bug fixes and known issues with ver.3.5.0, please refer to December 4, 2025 Release Notes.

2025

December 4, 2025

Official Android 15.0 and Android 16.0 (beta) arm64 OS images have been updated to version 3.5.0.
Boot time has been improved for Android 16.0 (beta).
Android 15 & 16 (beta): WebRTC: Fixed an issue with virtual device interaction when the Redis connection is lost.
ADB Tunnel: Fixed ADB tunnel connections stability issues.
On Android 16, the adb root command executes successfully, but the device returns a timeout error while waiting for the response.

August 18, 2025

Android 16.0 beta image has been released.
Beta known issues: Getting device ownership could fail on boot.
The kiosk setup process could experience trouble if a user is already logged in.

May 28, 2025

Persistent settings: GPS location, battery level and status, and disk I/O settings are now persistently saved across sessions.
Android images update: Official ARM64 Android images have been updated to version 3.4.1.
Beta bugs fixes: All previous known issues with arm64 beta images have been fixed.
Keystore boot error: Resolved a booting error that occurred when the keystore.ks file was corrupted.
Certificate generation: Fixed an error encountered during the certificate generation process.
Wi-Fi proxy settings: Fixed an issue affecting persistent Wi-Fi proxy configurations.
Device name display: Fixed a bug where the device name would sometimes display as “unknown” in settings.

2024

December 23, 2024

Android 15 ARM64 (beta) Image: A beta version of the Android 15 ARM64 image is now available.
New official recipe: The “Xiaomi 15” recipe has been added, featuring the Android 15 image.
Image version update: Images for Android 12, 12.1, 13, and 14 have been updated to version 3.3.1.
Alternative webviews: You can now install alternative WebView packages on virtual devices.
Image injection: Injected images now maintain their aspect ratio and original orientation.
IMEI configuration: The IMEI is now properly set according to the widget configuration or the persist.gsm.imei property.
Device name matching: The running device name now correctly matches the Android image name.
Home button: The home button on virtual devices works as expected.
Camera errors: Resolved camera errors encountered in Instagram and other third-party apps.

November 8, 2024

Android 12 ARM64 (beta): Android 12 ARM64 beta image has been released.
Beta known issues: Home button: The toolbar's home button is not working as expected. Camera: The camera crashes upon startup.

October 17, 2024

ARM64 beta images: Android 13 & 14 are now available for arm64 as beta images.
Architecture filter: A new filter has been added to easily switch between x86/x86_64 and arm64 architectures.
Beta known issues: Home button: The toolbar’s home button is not working as expected. Camera: The camera works with the native app but may have issues with third-party apps.

June 28, 2024

Single Sign-On: Users can now easily sign up or log in to their Genymotion SaaS accounts using their Google or GitHub credentials.

June 12, 2024

Android 14 (x86_64) final: Android 14 x86_64 final image has been released. Previous known bugs have been fixed.
Biometrics widget: New Biometrics Widget is now available with for both Android 13 and Android 14 (version 3.2.0 images). This widget emulates biometric authentication methods such as fingerprint.

January 29, 2024

API Tokens: Users can generate personal API tokens and use them as authentication token in gmsaas CLI or Public HTTP API.
API Token revoking: Users can revoke their API tokens at any time.
API Token usage tracking: Users can track the last usage of their API tokens.

2023

December 14, 2023

Android 14 x86_64 beta image: Android 14 x86_64 beta image has been released.
Beta known issues: When starting the messaging app, a warning popup related to the app version is triggered.
Bluetooth is not working.
Charging status is not updating correctly in battery widget.

October 9, 2023

Android Images updated to v.3.1.0: Android 9.0, 10.0 and 12.0 images have been updated to ver.3.1.0.
VPN applications no longer break the virtual devices upon activation (Android 11.0 arm64, 12.0 and higher).
The camera emulation stack has been improved for better performance and stability (Android 9.0, 10.0, 11.0).
Add 5G to mobile network profiles (Android 10.0 and higher).
When wifi is activated, the mobile network interface state is now properly propagated to the player (Android 11.0 and higher).
Default Sim operator name is now set to “T-Mobile” (Android 9.0 and higher).
Mobile signal strength is now properly initialized according to current configuration.
When deactivating network QoS, the network type is no longer modified.

September 5, 2023

Group Quotas: It is now possible to control the number of devices allocated to group and sub-groups.

June 21, 2023

User groups: Managers can create user groups and sub-groups, specify a name and a description for each of them, and organize their users in them.
User groups bulk import: From a downloadable template; managers can fill sheets with the required information (user email, existing group name) and import it directly via the graphical interface.
Supported formats: Excel Sheets (.xls, xslx) and CSV files format are supported.

May 25, 2023

Android 13.0 x86_64 beta image: Android 13.0 x86_64 image beta is now available.
Beta known issues: Using a VPN application may break the virtual device.
The camera app might crash.

March 16, 2023

Android 12.1 x86_64 image: Android 12.1 x86_64 is now available.
Bluetooth: Bluetooth stack is now emulated in the new Android 12.1 image.
Known issues: Using an Android VPN application may break the virtual device.

January 26, 2023

Android 12 x86_64 image: Android 12.0 x86_64 is now available.
Bluetooth: Bluetooth stack is now emulated in the new Android 12.0 image.
Known issues: Using an Android VPN application may break the virtual device.

January 17, 2023

Android Image update: Android images have been updated to 3.0.2.
GPS: GPS location with Google Play Services fixed (Android 11 x86_64).

2022

December 7, 2022

Hardware profiles and Images: The Recipes interface has been redesigned with two new sections, Hardware Profiles and Images, to provide a modern solution to create custom Android virtual devices in the Cloud.
Devices can now be created by combining Hardware profiles and Images to create instances and recipes with any supported hardware specifications and Android versions.
Hardware profiles can be customized to create devices with some custom specifications (Form Factor, Display).
New Save UX: When an instance is saved, it both creates a custom recipe and a reusable image.

August 4, 2022

Android 11 x86_64: Android 11 x86_64 image is now available.

June 9, 2022

Recipes sharing: Recipes can now be shared to the whole organization.
Preferences: Personal application preferences (sort, tables length, etc.) are now synchronized between all your devices.
Overall performance: The website size and servers algorithms have been optimized to improve latency.
Recipe saving: Saving recipe status is now also displayed in the Quick VD start dialog.
Virtual device status: We fixed an issue causing virtual device status not being updated sometimes.

March 29, 2022

Custom recipes: Custom recipe has its share status displayed directly in the table row.
Administration: Managers can now search users.
Custom recipes: Custom recipes are now displayed by default in the Recipes section.
Virtual device actions: Virtual device actions are directly displayed in the table row.
Responsiveness: All tables are now responsive (laptops & mobile support).

January 26, 2022

Naming: Genymotion Cloud SaaS becomes Genymotion SaaS.
User Interface: Homepage now lists your running virtual devices in a customizable table.
You can now start, stop and save virtual devices directly on this page.
Emulator player has been maximized and uses dark theme.
Templates are now Recipes: default (delivered by Genymotion) or custom (shared or saved).
All pages are now responsive (laptops & mobile support).
Modern user-experience everywhere, applying Material Design principles.
Platform status directly visible in Sidenav.
Easily set your avatar & name.
Links to Documentation, public API and Help center have been added.
Collaboration features: inviting users, sharing recipes and live sessions have been reworked to facilitate teamwork.
Administration: Managers can now promote invited users as managers.

2020

June 24, 2020

Android images update: Android images have been updated to 2.16.
Data encryption: File-based data encryption is available for Android 8.0, 8.1, 9.0 and 10.0.
SSL VPN: SSL VPN client applications has been added to Android 5.0 and higher.
Genymotion Java API: The Java API has been updated.
RIL and Baseband: Improved stability when changing baseband values like IMEI. Now persistent across reboots.
GPS: Added dummy satellites. Improves support of applications using location framework.
GPS: Location data are periodically reported to the framework now.
Camera: Implemented autofocus.
Audio: Fixed microphone sampling rate.
Audio: Increased output and input volumes.
Copy / Paste: Fixed empty clipboard handling.
Open GApps: Bumped to 20200606 release.
Android 10.0: Fixed Disk I/O feature. It is now applied to the system partition.
Kiosk feature is no longer device-owner when it’s not in use: allows other device-owner applications.
Android 6.0 - 9.0: Better OpenGL ES support: improves performance and fixes various bugs.
Update Android System webview.
Android 9.0: Fixed AAC audio playback.
Bumped base Android version to android-9.0.0_r56.
Android 7.0: Enabled SSSE3 instruction set.
Android 5.1 and higher: Allow ro.build.description property override.
Android 4.4: Enabled multi-user.

August 20, 2019

Android images update: All Android images have been updated to 2.14.
Updates: Android: New, colorful wallpapers.
Keyboard: Keyboard composition has been fixed; you can now type symbols the way you are used to.
Build properties: Improvements to overriding build properties; ro.vendor.build.fingerprint override on Android 9.0.
Internet connectivity issues on Android 8.0 have been fixed.
Searching for applications in Google Play works again.

October 31, 2018

Android 9.0 x86: Android 9.0 x86 image has been added.