2021-01-25
Genymotion Desktop 3.2.0 is the Android emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux. This article presents the most notable changes for this release.
GPX replay
Genymotion Desktop has been able to simulate GPS coordinates for a long time. Manually moving your virtual device around the world gets tedious really fast. Manually moving your virtual device around the world usually does not result in realistic movements.
Genymotion Desktop 3.2.0 can replay real-life movements recorded in GPX files. This feature makes it easier for you to debug your GPS-enabled application. This feature can also support whatever idea requires simulating the realistic movement of an Android device.
Recorded GPX traces can be long to replay. Genymotion Desktop GPS widget comes with two features to go right to the interesting parts of a trace.
First, Genymotion Desktop GPS widget provides adjustable replay speed. Replay speed ranges from 1x to 5x.
Second, Genymotion Desktop GPS widget provides a slider. The slider fast-forwards or rewinds back to the portion of the trace you care about.
OpenGL ES 3.0
Genymotion Desktop supports OpenGL ES 3.0. You can run more games or GPU-intensive applications.
Real multitouch support
If you have a touch screen, Genymotion Desktop can send proper multitouch events. Multitouch events include gestures like pinch to zoom.
You can get creative with drawing apps.
Material facelift
The Player user interface has received a Material facelift. The Material facelift gives the Player user interface a more modern appearance.
OpenGL accelerated GPS map widget
The GPS widget map uses OpenGL for rendering. Maps are now crisper. Zoom is smoother. Texts are always correctly oriented.
Simplified tool integrations
Genymotion Desktop comes with gmtool, a device management command-line tool. Until now, all gmtool command required a license to use it. License requirements made tool integrations a no-go.
Tool integrations required you to parse VirtualBox command-line tool output. Tool integrations required you to filter out non-Genymotion virtual machines. Tool integrations required you to use internal commands to start a device.
This process is tedious. This process could prove unreliable.
Desktop 3.2.0 lifted some restrictions on gmtool. Desktop 3.2.0 makes it possible to use gmtool to list, start and stop virtual devices. This is possible even for users without a license.
This change should make it simpler for everyone to integrate Genymotion Desktop in their favorite tool.
By the way, there are Genymotion Desktop plugins for Android Studio, Eclipse and VS Code.
There is more
You can find all those changes and a few others in Genymotion Desktop 3.2.0 release notes.
Get it
Download Genymotion Desktop 3.2.0 now!