Android 16.0 (beta) for Desktop
- November 27, 2025
- Genymotion Desktop
- New Android version
- Android 16.0 (beta) image has been released on
- Genymotion Desktop
- .
- Known Issue
- On-Screen Keyboard Trigger:
- Currently, the on-screen keyboard toggle button may not automatically appear when you click into a text input field.
- Workaround:
- If you require the soft keyboard, simply go to
your device configuration
and manually enable the
“Use virtual keyboard for text input”
option. This ensures the keyboard appears whenever you need it.
- Quick Boot Consistency:
- In specific circumstances, the Quick Boot feature may fail to initialize properly, resulting in a crash of the emulator or the last Android app.
- Workaround:
- if you encounter this issue with your workflow, just disable quick boot in
your device configuration
.
Android 16.0 (beta) for Genymotion Device image (PaaS) and Genymotion SaaS (Cloud)
- August 18, 2025
- Genymotion Device image (PaaS), Genymotion SaaS (Cloud)
- New Android version
- Android 16.0 (beta) image has been released on
Genymotion SaaS
and
Genymotion Device Image.
- Known Issue
- 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.
- Cloud Providers Marketplaces
- AWS: visit marketplace →
- GCP: visit marketplace →
- Azure: visit marketplace →
- Alibaba: visit marketplace →
gmsaas 1.15.0
- July 21, 2025
- Genymotion SaaS (Cloud)
- Added
- Linux arm64 wheel available for distributions with glibc 2.39 (Ubuntu 24+, Fedora 40+, Debian 13+)
- Changed
- macOS: native arm64 ADB Tunnel (Rosetta 2 no longer needed)
- Linux x86 wheel upgraded and available for distributions with glibc 2.31 (Ubuntu 20+, Fedora 32+, Debian 11+)
- Windows x86 wheel upgraded
- OpenSSL 3 used for ADB Tunnel instead of OpenSSL 1.1.1
- Run
- pip3 install [--user] --upgrade gmsaas
- to update
Genymotion SaaS 3.4.1 OS images
- May 28, 2025
- Genymotion SaaS (Cloud)
- Improvements
- OS images update:
- Official ARM64 OS images have been updated to version 3.4.1
- Android 12.0, 12.1, 13.0, 14.0 and 15.0 (released on 2025/05/28)
- Android 9.0, 10.0 and 11.0 (released on 2025/07/22)
- Android 7.0 and 8.0 (coming soon)
- Persistent settings:
- GPS location, battery level and status, and disk I/O settings are now persistently saved across sessions.
- Bug fixes
- 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.
gmsaas 1.14.1
- May 23, 2025
- Genymotion SaaS (Cloud)
- Fixed:
- Resolved an issue where adbconnect command failed on Windows due to a missing OpenSSL dependency.
- Run
- pip3 install [--user] --upgrade gmsaas
- to update
gmsaas 1.14.0
- May 15, 2025
- Genymotion SaaS (Cloud)
- Changed:
- Dropped support for Linux distributions using glibc versions earlier than 2.31.
- Dropped support for 32-bit Windows.
- Fixed:
- Enhanced the reliability of ADB Tunnel, specifically when used on congested networks.
- See our documentation for more details.
- Run
- pip3 install [--user] --upgrade gmsaas
- to update
Automotive OS 14.0 (beta) on Genymotion Device Image
- May 5, 2025
- Genymotion Device image (PaaS)
- Android version
- Android Automotive OS 14.0 (beta)
- Cloud providers marketplaces
- AWS: visit marketplace →
- GCP: visit marketplace →
- Azure: visit marketplace →
- Alibaba: visit marketplace →
- New features
- Removed non-relevant widget for Automotive use case.
- Added Baseband and Network widgets.
- Automatically initiates LTE network connection upon virtual device boot.
- Bug fixes
- Applied minor display fixes for improved UI.
- Removed unwanted pop-up that appeared on first boot.
- Resolved issue where .apk files were not correctly installed.