Graphical Interface

The Graphical Interface chapter describes the web interface. The web interface can be accessed from https://cloud.geny.io.

Profile

Avatar

The Gravatar service is used for your profile picture.
This service is used by many websites.
The Gravatar service allows you to define an avatar once and have it automatically displayed on all websites using it.
To set up the avatar, click Create your own Gravatar.
Create your own Gravatar, create an account and follow the instructions.
Your picture will automatically be displayed on Genymotion SaaS.

Name

Your first name and last name are used within Genymotion SaaS and emails to identify your virtual devices.
These details ease accounts management and allow the system to address you by your name.

Change Password

You can change your password here.
These fields are not required to change your name nor avatar.

Datacenter

The organization data center location is displayed in the upper-right corner of the top toolbar.
If you are an administrator of the organization, you can switch data center by clicking the drop-down list and selecting another data center.
Only administrators can change the data center.

Virtual devices

This page lists the virtual devices currently running in Genymotion SaaS.
You can view which user has an active virtual device.
You can view the virtual device name.
You can view the person who shared the virtual device.
You can view the creation date and time of the virtual device.
You can sort this information by clicking on the column titles.
The view can be customized by clicking the Manage settings control.
When the Refresh button is highlighted, new data is available.
Click Refresh to update.
From here, you can perform actions for the organization virtual devices: Display, Stop, Save recipe, Message owner.
Actions can be performed either by selecting one or more devices using the checkboxes or by clicking the action icons on the desired virtual device.

Devices life-cycle

A virtual device can have the following statuses.

| Status | Description | |---|---| | Creating | Genymotion is configuring a new virtual device based on the chosen recipe. | | Starting | The virtual device is starting. | | Booting | Android is booting on the virtual device. | | Online | The virtual device is running and ready to use. | | Saving | Genymotion is saving the virtual device configuration as a recipe. | | Saved | The recipe has just been saved, the virtual device will stop soon. | | Stopping | The virtual device is stopping. | | Offline | The virtual device is now stopped. | | Recycled | The virtual has been automatically shut down according to your settings. | | Expired | The virtual device has been stopped because your license has expired. | | Revoked | The virtual device has been stopped due to a problem with your subscription. | | Error | The virtual device has stopped unexpectedly. |

Start

You can quick start a new virtual device by clicking Start.

Recipes

Recipes are a combination of hardware profiles and images. You can view the different types of recipes from this page:

All Recipes: to display all the recipes (default)
Official Recipes: to display the official (template) recipes
Custom Recipes: to display your own and shared custom recipes

You can also use the bar in the upper-right hand corner to find a specific recipe by its name or UUID.

Start a virtual device

To start a virtual device from a recipe, click on the desired recipe card.

Create a custom recipe

See Create and manage custom components.

Hardware profiles

Hardware profiles define a virtual device hardware specifications, such as vCPUs, RAM and Disk size. Navigate to Recipes > Hardware profiles to display the official and/or custom hardware profiles:

All Hardware profiles: to display both the official and custom profiles (default)
Official Hardware profiles: to display the official profiles only
Custom Hardware profiles: to display your custom profiles only

You can also use the bar in the upper-right hand corner to find a specific hardware profile by its name.

Create a custom recipe from a hardware profile

It is possible to create a custom recipe from a hardware profile. To do so, click on the Hardware profile card.

Create custom hardware profiles

See Create and manage custom components.

Images

Images are virtual devices Android OS disk images. Currently available official images are:

arm64
x86/x86_64
Android 16.0 (beta)
Android 15.0
Android 14.0
Android 13.0
Android 12.1
Android 12.0
Android 11.0
Android 10.0
Android 9.0 Pie
Android 8.0 Oreo

Note: x86/x86_64 images are deprecated and will be removed after March 30, 2026.

Navigate to Recipes > Images to display the official and/or custom images.

All images: to display both the official and custom images (default)
Official Images: to display the official images only
Custom Images: to display your custom images only

You can also use the bar in the upper-right hand corner to find a specific image.

Create a custom recipe from an Image

It is possible to create a custom recipe from an image. To do so, click on the Image card.

Create custom images

See Create and manage custom components.

Documentation

This menu links to this documentation.

API reference & SDK

This menu links to Genymotion Public HTTP API reference and SDK.

Support

If you encounter any problems while using Genymotion SaaS, you can reach our help center by clicking on this menu or use the widget on the bottom of the page and enter your problem description.

You can also Contact us and attach a file to your request (it must not exceed 20MB). Our support team will do their best to solve your issue as quickly as possible.

Please write in English so that we can process your request faster.

Administration

This section is only available for the manager of the organization.

Status

This section displays the current status of Genymotion SaaS services. Detailed status can also be found at https://status.genymotion.com