2026
June 9, 2026
- Android Automotive 14.0 beta image has been added.
June 4, 2026
- New dedicated media injection widget to manage camera & mic permissions, pick hardware sources, and inject custom/default media with live preview.
- Automatic bi-directional clipboard synchronization with copy/paste inputs. Prompts for clipboard permission on first use, then syncs copy/paste between browser and device.
- Rotation button now triggers a smooth rotation animation.
- Auto-hide empty toolbar and floating toolbar and add configuration (displayToolbar, floatingToolbar) for manual control.
- Add support for the new JS Maps API while keeping the old API accessible to ensure marker support.
- Improved readability of the sound notification toast in light theme.
- Widget icons harmonization.
- Improved signaling when using a default TURN server (warning icon + tooltip about non-optimal performance).
- Fixed an issue where the web player became unresponsive when camera was disabled (camera=false)
- Fixed placeholders theme variables that were not applied to input (light/dark).
- Disable “Cancel” option when GApps installation begin.
February 11, 2026
The following offical arm64 OS Image is now available:
- Android 8.0 arm64
The following official arm64 images have been updated to version 3.5.0:
- Android 9.0 arm64
- Android 10.0 arm64
- Android 11.0 arm64
For more information about improvements, bug fixes and known issues with version 3.5.0, please refer to December 4, 2025 Release Notes
January 21, 2026
- The following official arm64 images have been updated to version 3.5.0:
- Android 14.0 arm64
- Android 13.0 arm64
- Android 12.1 arm64
- Android 12.0 arm64
For more information about improvements, bug fixes and known issues with version 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.
Known 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. This could lead to some troubles in the kiosk setup process 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 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
- Android 11.0 arm64, 12.0 and higher: VPN applications no longer break the virtual devices upon activation.
- Android 9.0, 10.0, 11.0: The camera emulation stack has been improved for better performance and stability.
- Android 10.0 and higher: Add 5G to mobile network profiles.
- Android 11.0 and higher: When wifi is activated, the mobile network interface state is now properly propagated to the player.
- Android 9.0 and higher:
- Default Sim operator name is now set to “T-Mobile”.
- 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.
> Warning: 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.
- Android 11 x86_64: Fixed GPS location with Google Play Services.
2022
December 7, 2022
- Hardware profiles and Images: The Recipes interface has been completely 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
- Recipe 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 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.
- Removal: Applications dedicated page is going to be reworked and has been removed for now, but you can still upload APKs to your devices.
- Administration: User groups page has been temporarily removed as it is incomplete. It will be back with new features later.
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.
- Bumped base Android version to android-7.0.0_r36.
- Android 5.1 and higher:
- Allow ro.build.description property override.
- Android 4.4:
- Enabled multi-user.
2019
August 20, 2019
- Android images update: All Android images have been updated to 2.14
- Android: New, colorful wallpapers!
- Keyboard composition has been fixed; you can now type symbols the way you are used to. For example, on most European keyboard layouts, press “Alt Gr” + “E” to get the Euro symbol.
- Improvements have been done to the overriding of build properties: it is now possible to override ro.vendor.build.fingerprint on Android 9.0 and we fixed a bug in device ID/IMEI overriding for Android 6.0 and later.
- Internet connectivity issues on Android 8.0 have been fixed.
- Searching for applications in Google Play works again.
2018
October 31, 2018
- Android 9.0 x86: Android 9.0 x86 image has been added.