Genymotion Desktop Release Notes

3.11.0

• Genymotion SaaS integration: You can now create and delete Genymotion SaaS virtual devices directly within the app.
• Genymotion SaaS virtual devices can also be created from the Android Images page or the Hardware Profiles page.
• GenyShell: Added the ability to connect remotely to a Genymotion SaaS virtual device.
• Storage management: Added the ability to clean up orphaned Android images in the Storage tab of Genymotion Settings.
• Disk I/O widget: Enhanced the user experience.
• Capture widget: Refreshed styling.
• Battery widget: Refreshed styling.
• Hardware profiles: You can now use hardware profiles created from Genymotion SaaS for your local virtual devices.
• Location (GPS) widget: Fixed an issue preventing the persistence of the last recorded position.
• Media injection: Fixed the appearance of black margins in Crop mode when the input media is smaller than the camera resolution.

3.10.0

• Image update: Android 15 & 16 images have been updated to ver. 3.6.2.
• Android 16 update: Android 16 is no longer beta.
• Improvement: Boot time has been improved on Android 15.0.
• Memory issues: RAM consumption reduced on Android 15.0 and 16.0.
• Memory issues: Fixes memory leak with QEMU.
• Display bug: Developpers settings now appear enabled (did not appear as enabled by default).
• Genymotion SaaS Integration: View and interact with Genymotion Cloud virtual devices directly within Genymotion Desktop.
• Genymotion SaaS Integration: Use remote devices just like local ones with automatic ADB connection.
• Streamlined Creation: Simplified local virtual device creation with one-click deployment.
• Dedicated Resource Pages: Hardware profiles and Android images are now listed on their own separate pages.
• Hardware Previews: Added a screen preview within the hardware profile selection.
• OBS Virtual Camera Support: Experimental support now available on Linux and macOS.
• Modern Interface: Fully redesigned UI for a cleaner and more functional experience.
• Flexible Clipboard Sharing: The feature is now managed per virtual device and can be toggled at runtime.
• Updated Iconography: Refreshed all feature icons for better clarity.
• Bundled VirtualBox: Updated the VirtualBox version embedded in the Windows installer to 7.2.6a.
• QuickBoot: Now disabled by default to ensure better stability.
• Startup Reliability: Improved the reliability of local device boot-up sequences.
• Hyper-V Warning: Added a notification regarding Hyper-V usage on Windows when running VirtualBox.
• Update Stability: Improved the reliability of the Virtual Device update process.
• PowerShell Fix: Fixed issues with PowerShell interactions on Windows in specific circumstances.
• General Polish: Various minor UI fixes and improvements.
• Multi-display: Fixed a crash that may occur on recent Android versions.
• Full-screen mode may not work properly with cloud virtual devices.
• If gmsaas is used for ADB tunneling but not configured with the same user account, the ADB connection will fail silently.
• Snapshot recovery may malfunction.

3.9.0

• Android 15: Genymotion Desktop now supports Android 15.
• Android 15: Enjoy improved quick start functionality and no more lockscreen interruptions between sessions.
• Cloud instances: A new tab on the main page lists your Genymotion SaaS instances.
• Cloud instances: Future updates will bring seamless integration of cloud devices within Genymotion Desktop.
• Storage management: Easily manage disk space used by Genymotion in the settings.
• Storage management: Access detailed information and tools for cache and virtual device storage management.
• UI improvements: The user interface has been refreshed with a new sidebar, footer, and subtle enhancements to the main page.
• Simplified filters: Filters have been streamlined to better match common usage.
• Simplified filters: The UI has been cleaned up.
• Simplified filters: The search bar and sorting options are now the main tools to find your virtual devices.
• Notifications: The notification panel has been improved to display more information and be more user-friendly.
• Update management: Information about the latest version of Genymotion Desktop is now displayed in the settings.
• Update management: You can now easily check if you are up to date and download the latest version.
• Troubleshooting page: “About” information and various troubleshooting tools and links have been consolidated in a new page for easier access.
• Linux installer: The Linux binary installer extension has been changed from “.bin” to “.run” for better consistency with the Linux ecosystem.
• VirtualBox (Windows): Supported VirtualBox version is 7.0.26.
• Fixed an issue where devices would not start on Apple Silicon M4.
• Fixed license activation issue on some Windows hosts with high security settings.
• The camera may not work correctly after a device is resumed from a snapshot (quick boot).
• A cold boot may be required.
• Quick boot issue when foreground app is a Gecko-based app.
• On Windows hosts, Android 15 & 16 may be slow and unresponsive.
• Android 15 & 16 have performance issues with VirtualBox hypervisor.
• Multi-display is broken.

3.8.0

• Device Link: Use your smartphone to capture touch events and motion sensor data.
• Motion Sensors: Emulate accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope sensors.
• Motion Sensors: You can also use your smartphone as a sensor provider via the Device Link feature.
• High-Resolution Camera Injection (720p): Now available with updated Android images (version 12.0 and above).
• Gamepad support: Connect your gamepad controller to play Android games for a more immersive experience (available for Android 12 and higher).
• Dynamic Root Access: Now available for Android 12 and higher.
• The Remote Control widget has been replaced with the Device Link feature.
• Added preview for paid features.
• Improved support for High-DPI screens.
• Fixed Cut/Copy/Paste keyboard shortcuts on macOS.
• Enhanced error messaging for APK installation failures.
• Restricted QEMU port forwarding to the localhost interface.
• Fixed screenshot issues in landscape mode when using the Capture widget.
• Device Link app may occasionally display a blank screen (when this happens, mirroring is unavailable, but other features still work).
• Dummy Camera does not support HD, but image injection works.
• Motion Sensors 3D scene is disabled on some systems, such as Mac, due to the lack of OpenGL 3.3 support.

3.7.1

• Fixed a regression introduced with 3.7.0 when a fresh virtual device fails to start.

3.7.0

• Toggle root access dynamically at runtime, or during the deployment, of a virtual device.
• News and updates feed.
• Fixed Virtual Device startup issue when using a proxy.
• Removed obsolete startup operations.
• Removed obsolete startup operations: Can improve startup performance in some cases.

3.6.0

• Biometrics widget to pass fingerprint authentication.
• Ability to disable Quickboot with QEMU.
• Android camera inputs are persistent after reboot of virtual devices.
• -n option to genyshell to specify the default virtual device to use.
• QEMU is now the default hypervisor on Linux and macOS.
• Improved QEMU capabilities by using host CPU.
• Fixed the use of genyshell with several virtual devices and QEMU.
• Fixed VMHeap size change being ignored.

3.5.1

• Added a “Beta” flag for Android Images released as beta version.
• Fixed cloned devices startup issue.
• Fixed issue when cloning devices with the “Return” key.
• Improve VirtualBox reliability on Windows.
• Fixed macOS permissions on Sonoma.
• Fixed graphical issues on macOS.

3.5.0

• New Baseband widget allowing to set Network/SIM operators properties.
• KML support to GPS replay track feature.
• JSON output format for the command “gmtool admin list”.
• Improved GPS widget UX.
• Improved event-based communication between gmtool and launchpad.
• Fixed delete shortcut icon.
• Android 5: Sim Operator information requires to switch Airplane mode ON and OFF to be taken in consideration.
• Android 11 and lower: MSIN will appear as invalid in the Baseband widget, remove one digit to apply further changes.

3.4.0

• Apple Silicon chip (Mac M1) compatibility (Rosetta 2 required).
• Skin support and ability to use your own custom skins.
• “Advanced developer tools” widget, for now it’s a quick access to most common Android developer options.
• Multi-display for the Android versions that support it.
• Refresh button on OsImage list in virtual device creation wizard.
• Fixed MSVCR100.dll missing error on Windows.
• Fixed virtual device memory size limitation when using Genymotion on Apple Silicon.
• Force cold boot with QEMU when snapshot is not compatible anymore.
• Improve quick boot reliability.
• Multi-display does not work properly with Android 13.
• Skin rendering may not work properly with some multi-display configuration.
• Skin rendering may not work properly on Linux when auto tilling is enabled in the window manager.

3.3.3

• Reframe images and videos in the Media injection widget by choosing either “Crop”, “Keep aspect” or “Resize” modes.
• Support GIF format as image input in the Media injection widget.
• Release notes link in new software notification.
• Disclaimer when using personal use mode (Free edition).
• Updated dummy camera animation in the Media injection widget.
• Changed screencast widget sounds.
• Support for VirtualBox 7.0.2+ on macOS.
• Fixed camera orientation in the Media injection widget.
• Fixed OpenGApps installation on Android 12.
• Fixed gmtool help inconsistencies.
• Camera does not reconnect after a quick boot (QEMU)

3.3.2

• Support for VirtualBox 7.0.2+ on Windows and Linux.
• Fixed Player crashes when using a specific KDE Plasma theme.
• Fixed screencast shortcuts.
• Fixed boot loop of launchpad when having non-Genymotion virtual machines in VirtualBox.

3.3.1

• Fixed missing device information in log archives.
• Fixed device upgrade when using QEMU hypervisor.

3.3.0

• Android 11.
• System images 3.0.0 are now available, bringing lots of improvements.
• The Android version is now uncoupled from the hardware properties.
• The Android version uncoupling allows the deployment of any combination of simulated devices with any supported version of Android.
• Device creation and edition were reworked accordingly.
• Device creation and edition were reworked with different parameters separated in steps and tabs.
• Device creation and edition steps and tabs depend on context: creation or edition.
• Experimental support for QEMU hypervisor.
• Performance throughout the launchpad and player should be much better than with VirtualBox.
• New quick boot feature: the device state at player exit is saved instead of shutting down.
• New quick boot feature: This allows a quick launch without going through the long boot process.
• New quick boot feature: Only available with QEMU on macOS and Linux.
• Customizable toolbar: you can choose which widgets to show as well as their order.
• Customizable Virtual Device shortcuts.
• VM heap size (amount of RAM allocated by the Java Virtual Machine per app) can now be customized (during device creation or edition).
• Android 9 and later: rounded corners can now be set up at device creation and edition.
• New Media Injection widget, replacing the old Camera widget.
• New Media Injection widget allows feeding the virtual device microphone and cameras with media files as well as any detected host camera.
• New Settings widget, providing new features and information through several tabs.
• Some information about the current device and useful links are now available.
• Virtual Device shortcuts are now customizable.
• Information about open-source licenses is now more easily accessible.
• New Android Controls widget to simulate various physical buttons such as directional pad, multimedia buttons, call buttons.
• Reworked Network widget, with support for simulating Wifi connection, and more detailed Mobile data connection profiles.
• gmtool has been fully reworked.
• gmtool syntax and usage have also been improved to be more consistent with other command-line tools.
• More help information is now available for each command in nested levels of details.
• Device rotation has been reworked.
• Device rotation replaced the simple Portrait (0°) and Landscape (270°) choice.
• Device rotation allows rotating the display in any direction.
• Device rotation rotates in increments of 90°.
• Some light UI touch-ups, both in the launchpad and the player.
• Wording of error messages has been improved, providing clearer information and redirecting to more specific parts of the documentation.
• Share app feature has been removed.
• Android 4.4 is deprecated and has been removed.
• Emulator window title now shows the ADB serial instead of the IP.

3.2.1

• gmtool: The ‘gmtool admin list’ command now displays the right IP for each listed device instead of 0.0.0.0.
• gmtool: This was a regression introduced in 3.2.0 by a change meant to improve performance.
• Fixed foreground application detection not working with Android 10.
• Improved device startup reliability on slow computers.
• Player window stays in place after performing an ‘adb reboot’.
• Fixed device reconnection issues with Android 9.
• Fixed gmtool zsh completion when installing Genymotion as root.

3.2.0

• OpenGL ES 3.0 support, making it possible to test more advanced 3D code.
• The GPS widget now lets you load GPX files and replay them.
• It is now possible to disable clipboard sharing between virtual devices and the host operating system.
• If you have a touch screen, you can now send proper multitouch events, including gestures like pinch to zoom.
• The Player user interface has received a Material facelift, giving it a more modern appearance.
• The GPS widget map now uses OpenGL for rendering.
• Maps are now crisper, zoom is smoother, and texts are always correctly oriented.
• The gmtool admin list, gmtool admin start and gmtool admin stop commands no longer require a license.
• gmtool no longer requiring a license makes it possible to use gmtool to build integration with other tools like IDE.
• genyshell learned the -q command line option to avoid printing a banner.
• genyshell -q makes it easier to integrate in scripts.
• We updated the bundled version of VirtualBox in the Windows installer to 6.1.14.
• The Open GApps downloading code is more robust.
• Fixed gmtool admin stop command freeze.
• Some UI elements were blurry on HiDPI displays.
• When using an authenticated proxy, changing the proxy username no longer requires restarting Genymotion Desktop.
• On macOS, the Finder “Get Info” dialog now correctly displays Genymotion Desktop version.
• Fixed a regression in the GPS widget which made it impossible to type negative coordinates.
• The GPX replay feature now accepts GPX files without altitude or time information.
• Fixed the overflow menu of the emulator toolbar not showing keyboard shortcuts anymore on macOS.
• Fixed a regression which caused keyboard shortcuts to do nothing when they were activated the first time.

3.1.2

• SOCKS5 proxy support (for Genymotion Desktop launcher).
• Windows: VirtualBox 6.1 support.
• Linux: New devices are now configured to use PulseAudio, improving sound support.
• Fixed problems with VirtualBox 6.1 host-only interfaces on Windows.
• Fixed virtual device screens appearing cropped in the top-left corner on high-dpi monitors on Windows.
• Fixed mouse wheel on high-precision touchpads (Macbook touchpads, Magic Mouse) causing super-fast and jittery scrolling on macOS.
• Fixed rotation setangle command in Genyshell.
• The display rotates whenever the accelerometer value changes, as expected.
• Fixed heterogeneous-density multi-screen setups: rotating the device no longer causes the display to be zoomed.

3.1.0

• Revamped User Interface:
• On Windows and Linux, the Device Manager got its menu bar moved to the toolbar.
• Moving the menu bar saves vertical space.
• We reorganized the widgets in the toolbar.
• We streamlined the layout of most widgets.
• We refreshed the navigation icons.
• The title of the Emulator window is now more useful.
• The Emulator window title shows individual information (IP, device name) about the device first.
• Removed duplicated title from widgets.
• Removed duplicated title from widgets, making them smaller and cleaner.
• Improved VirtualBox error messages.
• Removed the --cloud option from gmtool.
• The --cloud option has been superseded by gmsaas CLI tool for Gneymotion SaaS.
• All Android images older than 4.4 have been removed.
• Improved performances with the latest versions of Android, especially on macOS.
• Better performance with Camera feature on macOS Catalina.

3.0.4

• 440 and 450 DPI buckets to match real-life devices like the Google Pixel 3.
• Drag’n’dropping images and videos has been improved.
• When a media file is dropped, the Android media library is automatically refreshed without having to restart the device.
• Network error reporting and logging have been improved.

3.0.3

• Bundled abd version has been bumped to 1.0.41.
• Some error messages have been reworded.
• Better stability when resuming from hibernation on Windows.

3.0.2

• We have adjusted the way we call “adb connect”.
• We have updated the version we ship with the product to match the one in platform-tools 28.0.2.
• Fixed compatibility with the adb tool bundled in the platform-tools 28.0.2 package of the Android SDK.
• The fixed compatibility caused failures to start virtual devices to be resolved.

3.0.1

• VirtualBox bundeld with Genymotion Desktop installer for Windows has been bumped to 6.0.4.
• Fixed an incompatibility with VirtualBox 6.0.
• The incompatibility caused updates of virtual devices to fail.
• The incompatibility made it impossible to modify the memory size of existing devices.
• Fixed an issue with gmtool not being able to create a virtual device from a template shared on Genymotion Cloud.

3.0.0

• New Material Design UI for the main window, dynamic filters for device and template lists, non blocking install and upgrade, sortable lists.
• Android 9.0 Pie final.
• The Map widget has been updated from Google maps provider to Mapbox.
• Added more info in the log files to help issue investigations.
• Genymotion warns you if the certificate used on an https request is not valid.
• The warning applies only for requests done from the main window.
• Requests made from the virtual device are secured by Android OS or the browser.
• The version of VirtualBox bundled in the Windows installer has been updated to 5.2.22.
• When changing the battery level from the command line, the mode automatically switches from host to manual.
• When signing out, every Genymotion Cloud devices are disconnected from adb.
• Android 8.0 network bridge feature has been fixed.
• Fixed gmtool command to stop devices in Genymotion Cloud returning before the device has stopped.
• Graphical rendering of Android 9.0 is still slow on MacOS.
• The next release will dramatically improve the performance.

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