Making Android Apps with Android Emulator

How a work of the emulator?

The emulator lets you prototype, develop and run Android applications without a physical device. The Android emulator plays all the hardware and software features of a mobile device without "call" installation. Provides a variety of buttons and control to run navigation applications. To use the emulator, AVD one or more configurations to be created. Android tool also allows you to create a new image of the SD card with a new AVD, which allow you to copy files. The image on the SD card can be loaded in the emulator at startup. The emulator supports Android Virtual Device configurations (DSA), you can specify the version of the Android system to use other applications, networks, audio / video storage and research, provide information to users and offers transitions and graphic themes. Applications can be run in more than one emulated starting device. The emulator also includes a variety of debugging functions as a console from which you can simulate application failure, as SMS / GSM calls, and simulate the effects of latency and dropouts in the data channel . The Android emulator emulated its GSM modem that simulates telephony functions in the emulator.

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DISADVANTAGES

The lack of advanced features
The disadvantages are that restricts phone calls from the emulator and has advanced features such as USB, camera, video, helmet, blue tooth.

Not compatible with Android devices X86

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Android Terminal Emulator uses the native development kit (NDK) to work with the Linux API to provide a Linux shell. Unfortunately, there is currently no publicly available Android devices that support the x86 NDK. Therefore, now Android Terminal Emulator is not available for x86 Android devices.
Android Terminal Emulator is compiled with support for x86 devices, and should be able to operate as soon as the x86 x86 devices devices that support NDK available.