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Genymotion Integrates Applitools Visual AI to Help Android Engineers Scale Automated Visual Tests Across Every Android Device

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2019  — Genymotion, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based Android emulation and VMI solutions, today announced the integration of Applitools, the leading provider of AI Powered end-to-end Visual Testing and Monitoring, to allow users to scale automated visual testing through the Genymotion Cloud. The new integration is a perfect union of these two offerings, making it easy for Applitools users to scale their visual tests using Genymotion Cloud virtual devices, and for Genymotion’s eight million Android developers and QA professionals to add AI Powered automated visual testing to its cloud-based emulation and CDI solution for testing on all Android devices at the same time. The integration will be demonstrated at the 2019 Appium Conference, in Bengaluru, India. Genymotion and Applitools are both sponsors of the Appium Conference, held June 13-15, 2019.  With AI Powered Automated Visual Testing integrated into the Genymotion Cloud, engineers can parallelize app tests across all Android devices at once, in order to detect all bugs — including visual and functional bugs identified via Visual AI — early and easily in the test cycle.  Digital Transformation has created the need for QA engineers to test their mobile applications on a large number of Android devices and screen sizes quickly, which is hard to scale with actual physical devices. Using Genymotion Cloud in combination with Applitools’ automated visual testing suite, Android developers speed up their parallel tests, accelerate releases and simultaneously improving the quality of their Android applications.   Getting Started is Easy: Write your Appium tests using the Applitools SDK for Appium to take screenshots for visual testing Launch Genymotion Cloud devices using their command line interface Run your Appium scripts to run visual tests  To get started with Genymotion and the Applitools extension, visit (https://cloud.geny.io/).  Genymotion Cloud is a powerful Android emulator on cloud to run and scale automated tests, and reduce time-to-market of apps. With flexible per-minute pricing, QA professionals and test automation engineers have the ability to manage their testing costs by scaling up or down the number of devices. Register on Genymotion Cloud to try its solution for free, no contract. “Applitools is the clear leader in the Automated Visual Testing space as a result of its industry-leading Visual AI technology, and we are excited that their suite of application visual management solutions is now available to Genymotion Cloud users,” said Tim Danford, CEO at Genymotion. “Engineers who need to scale their testing can now take advantage of the opportunity to save time and get their product to market quicker than ever before.” Learn how to run Applitools visual tests on Genymotion Cloud virtual devices Applitools helps developers, test automation engineers, QA professionals, and DevOps teams automatically run visual tests at scale across every app, browser, OS, and screen size through its AI powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring solution. “I am glad that these two industry-leading technologies have integrated in order to bring Android Developers the value of automated visual testing combined with the Genymotion Cloud,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “Visual AI is the only way for developers to visually validate every screen of the native Android applications quickly and accurately to support faster releases at a higher quality than ever before.”   Learn more about how to use Genymotion Cloud, Appium, and Applitools to visually test Android apps. “I’m happy to see Applitools and Genymotion working together to lower the barrier to entry for mobile automated visual testing,” said Jonathan Lipps, Architect of the Appium project and Founder of AppiumPro. “As someone who’s focused on making it easier for the world to achieve all kinds of mobile automation, I appreciate how this integration will put easy distributed visual testing within the grasp of every tester using tools they’re already familiar with.”    Join a webinar presented by Jonathan Lipps titled, “Easy Distributed Visual Testing for Mobile Apps and Sites” and learn how to easily parallelize your tests across all Android devices at once, in order to quickly detect bugs and spend less time on test runs. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, July 9 at 10 am PDT (1 pm EDT / 6 pm UK). To register, visit: (https://rebrand.ly/GM-APP-webinar-w-J-Lipps )   About Genymotion Founded in 2011, Genymotion has offices in Paris, Lyon and San Francisco. Their flagship product, Genymotion Cloud is available as SaaS or PaaS on popular marketplaces like AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba Cloud. Genymotion Cloud enables Android app developers to scale their automated tests and reduce the time-to-market of their apps. Their Desktop solution, Genymotion Desktop Android Emulator, has over 8 million users from over 100 countries and continues to be the most popular Android application development and test solution.  Genymotion is an integral part of testing tool stack at innovative tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft, Twitter, HBO, and more. To learn more, please visit www-staging.genymotion.com.     About Applitools  Applitools provides a state-of-the-art AI-powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring platform for Developers, Test Automation, Manual QA, DevOps, and Digital Transformation teams. Our Visual AI technology transforms how organizations approach quality by ensuring web and mobile applications appear and operate exactly as designed across any device, browser, OS, or native application. Applitools is fast, quick to integrate with any DevOps environment, easy to use by anyone on the team, and scalable to any size organization looking to increase speed and quality with every release – an outcome necessary to compete in today’s challenging business environment.    Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com. 

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Run Applitools Visual Tests on Genymotion Cloud Virtual Devices

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As more and more mobile QA teams are getting rid of manual testing, the need for automated testing is growing. Most teams focus their test automation on Unit, API, Integration, and Functional UI. But an important aspect of your mobile automation testing is Visual testing. Visual UI Testing is critical to catching unintended visual bugs while updating UI components. Visual bugs are difficult to find using functional tests, which focus on identifying bugs in your workflow. If you haven’t tried visual testing before, you’ll be surprised how many visual bugs you may find with an automated visual testing tool like Applitools. And don’t even think of manually finding visual bugs as it is painfully difficult to compare hundreds of images of your mobile app. Applitools provides AI-powered visual regression testing of applications and allows you to test cross-platform easily to identify visual bugs. It focuses on the visual aspects of your app and plays a major role in exposing the visual differences between baseline snapshots and both current and future snapshots. Its AI powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring solution helps developers, test automation engineers, QA professionals, and DevOps teams automatically run visual tests at scale across every app, browser, OS, and screen size. Applitools allows developers to verify that each UI element in each page appears in the right color, shape, position, and size and that it does not overlap or hide other UI elements.   What are visual bugs? I’m sure you’ve all played spot-the-difference games in your childhood, and felt like a genius when you spotted all the differences in under a minute. Those games are fun! Well, Applitools’ visual AI does the same job of finding those visual differences (or bugs) in your mobile or web apps at a much-accelerated speed. See for yourself here. Here are some examples of visual bugs: Text blocking buy button on Southwest Airlines website (Source: Applitools) Search box blocking shopping cart on ThredUp Website (Source: Applitools)   Fragmented Android Market Due to the fragmentation of Android devices market, Android apps may visually behave differently on different devices and therefore, visual testing becomes even more critical for Android apps. With time-to-market becoming an important factor in improving customer experience, there is even more pressure on the QA teams to run these tests across a vast number of devices in the easiest way possible. Testing mobile apps on physical devices or using device farms is cumbersome, slow and expensive to manage and is often a deterrent to scaling their tests on as many devices as possible. To solve that problem, Applitools teamed up with Genymotion to making parallel visual testing far easier for QA engineers. Genymotion Cloud is a powerful Android emulator on the cloud to run your Appium tests and reduce app’s time-to-market. With flexible per-minute pricing, engineers have the ability to manage their testing costs by scaling up or down the number of devices. With Genymotion Cloud, testers at any level can sign up here and try out our solution on-demand, without a contract.   Applitools and Genymotion Cloud Our teams decided to work together with Applitools to solve this common problem that users were facing: Test the visual portions of an app on all the Android devices at the same time. Engineers can parallelize their visual UI tests using Applitools and Appium across all Android Genymotion Cloud virtual devices at once. This allows them to detect bugs as soon as possible and spend less time on test runs. QA engineers appreciate the ability to test their mobile applications on a large number of Android devices and screen sizes which is hard to scale with actual physical devices. Using Genymotion cloud virtual devices will speed up their parallel tests even faster. The collaboration between Applitools and Genymotion cloud allows for faster visual comparison on more configurations while also seeing the previous builds. This article will show you the steps to take in order to parallelize your Appium tests to perform visual testing and run those tests across a number of Android devices on Genymotion Cloud. Running Appium visual tests using Applitools on Genymotion Cloud Write your Appium tests using the Applitools SDK for Appium for taking screenshots for visual testing. You’ll use the udid capability in your tests to define on which Genymotion device you’ll run the tests. This can be known in advance as for Genymotion devices, adb serial is localhost:XXXXX where XXXXX is a port number that can be defined in advance (cf gmsaas below) Launch Genymotion Cloud devices via gmsaas command line. Read here. Run visual tests across Genymotion Cloud devices using Appium   For in-depth information on setting up Applitools and Genymotion Cloud devices, and running those tests, we recommend you to read this step-by-step tutorial. We’ve also put together video tutorials on how to run Applitools visual tests using Genymotion devices. Try it out and let us know how it goes.   More about Genymotion and Applitools Find out more about Genymotion, or sign up for a Genymotion Cloud account to get started free with $50 worth of credits now.   Find out more about Applitools. You can read their thoughts on using Genymotion, Appium & Applitools to test Android apps, request a demo, sign up for a free account, and view their Appium tutorial.

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Launching gmsaas : New CLI to automate the lifecycle of Genymotion Cloud Android virtual devices

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Run all of your virtual devices from a Continuous Integration (CI) environment, shard your tests on multiple virtual devices, or trash them after the tests are over. And if you are a person of few clicks, manage all your Cloud-running Android devices without opening an Internet browser. With gmsaas, just log in with your Genymotion Cloud SaaS account and manage all of your Android virtual devices running in the Cloud. You can also start new virtual devices in the Cloud based on any of the default or user-defined devices recipes. Manage your Android virtual devices from the command line   With Genymotion Cloud SaaS, we have always focused on a great user-experience whether it is the speed of starting/stopping devices or adding new widgets. Thanks to its material-based design and a slick UI, it is very easy to get started and run Android tests using Genymotion Cloud. And if you are a Test Engineer or a Developer who wants to automate the start/stop of your virtual devices from a Continuous Integration (CI) environment using a command-line tool, until now you could only use gmtool which was shipped with Genymotion Desktop and had several limitations when used to access Genymotion Cloud. Clearly, this wasn’t the user-experience we were going for, and we’ve been working on creating a new command-line tool to replace it. Last week, we launched gmsaas – a new command-line tool that allows you to start/stop Android virtual devices on Genymotion Cloud without the limitations of gmtool! This new command-line tool is designed to easily interact with your Android virtual devices, hosted on our SaaS solution. There are three main advantages of using gmsaas: It is a lightweight binary distributed from PyPi. Easy to install, easy to update! No need to install Genymotion Desktop application No need for Genymotion Desktop license registration Getting started   Requirements Genymotion Cloud SaaS Register here python3 and pip3 Check out how to install Python 3 if you already haven’t How to install pip3 on Windows or macOS Android SDK How to Install Android SDK Install step pip3 install gmsaas Configuration step set the path to your Android SDK folder with: gmsaas config set android-sdk-path <pathToThatFolder> Playing with gmsaas   Log in to your Genymotion Cloud SaaS account with gmsaas gmsaas auth login <yourGenymotionCloudSaaSEmail> List all Android virtual device recipes shared in the Cloud gmsaas recipes list Start an Android virtual device in the Cloud gmsaas instances start <recipeUUID> <instanceName> Note: the <instanceUUID> is printed on standard output. Make a virtual device usable with adb gmsaas instances adbconnect <instanceUUID> List all your Android virtual devices running in the Cloud gmsaas instances list Stop an Android virtual device running in the Cloud gmsaas instances stop <instanceUUID> gmsaas is our first step to bring Cloud-running Android virtual devices to the masses… well, at least to the tech masses! Subscribe here and be the first to know about the upcoming releases of Genymotion Cloud SaaS.(hint: we’ve got something special coming soon!) Get Genymotion Cloud SaaS updates

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Android Emulation Provider Genymobile Reaches 4 Million Hours of Usage; Appoints New CEO to Drive Further Success of Flagship Product, Genymotion Cloud

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San Francisco, April 30, 2019: Industry-leading provider of Android emulation solutions, Genymobile, announced today that its cloud-based Android emulation service, Genymotion Cloud has clocked more than 4 million hours of usage since its launch in November 2016. To help the company capitalize on the recent growth, and navigate its efforts to the next-level, they have brought on a new CEO, an industry veteran, and someone who has previously led innovative teams at Facebook, Tim Danford. As the flagship product of Genymobile, Genymotion Cloud has experienced tremendous levels of growth. With a near 20% compounded monthly growth rate (CMGR), there are currently over 2,000 developers using the emulator on just Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace alone to build and deliver Android applications to their customers. Adoption of the cloud-based solution, Genymotion Cloud is growing across the Android testing and QA (Quality Assurance) ecosystem as it enables developers and QA engineers to scale their automated tests and reduce time-to-market of their applications. Genymotion Cloud easily integrates into development and test automation frameworks, and the most popular Continuous Integration (CI) servers such as Jenkins and Cucumber via a unique, cloud scale implementation of Android Debug Bridge (ADB). Notable customers using Genymotion Cloud include Yammer and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). Yammer (Microsoft), a customer since September 2017, uses Genymotion Cloud SaaS daily to test their mobile apps and has spent over 200,000 hours on the platform. Test Engineers at Yammer find virtual devices to be much faster to use than device farms where device availability is longer. Additionally, BBM successfully migrated their Android Continuous Integration development environment to the cloud using Genymotion and uses over 450 hours of Android virtual device emulation every day. “Genymotion Cloud is very reliable and scalable. We can create, start, and destroy emulators quickly, easily, and reliably. We run dozens of sessions of instrumented, automated tests reliably at scale every day. It also provides tools that are easy to use and has all the necessary functionality we need to achieve what we want to do.”, says Sen from Engineering team at BBM. To drive this continued growth of Genymotion Cloud the company recently appointed Tim Danford as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman to steer its expansion in the cloud. Arnaud Dupuis, founder and CTO of Genymobile says “I’m pleased to welcome Tim as our CEO. He has been an active advisor to Genymobile since 2013 and understands the company and the market very well. He brings deep experience in mobile and cloud technologies. Tim has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and most recently led innovative teams at Facebook. Tim’s vision and execution track record is exactly what we need as we unfold the next chapter of growth with Genymotion Cloud.” “I’m excited to join the company at a time when Genymotion is scaling on the cloud. We are already seeing double digit growth with early customer access across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud. We will focus on exploring new ways to use the service and work on improving developer and QA experience by integrating better with existing tools and frameworks used by our customers. We intend to be a big part of Android Pyramidal Testing in the cloud”, says Danford, who was a Director at Facebook Connectivity Lab prior to joining Genymobile. Genymotion Cloud is becoming an integral part of the testing tool stack at leading innovative tech companies like Blackberry Messenger, Starling Bank, Toast, Microsoft and more. If you would like to learn more about Genymotion Cloud, please visit http://localhost:9000. It can also be accessed through popular cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud.   About Genymobile Founded in 2011, Genymobile has offices in Paris, Lyon and San Francisco. Their flagship product, Genymotion Desktop Android Emulator has over 8 million users from over 100 countries and continues to be the most popular Android application development and test solution. Genymotion Cloud is available as SaaS or PaaS on popular marketplaces like AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud. Today, our cloud solution enables Android app developers to scale their automated tests and reduce time-to-market of their apps which has made it an integral part of the testing tool stack at innovative tech companies like Microsoft, Twitter, Toast, HBO, Blackberry Messenger, and more.

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Genymotion Cloud Android 9.0 (Pie) virtual devices on AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud

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Since the launch of Android 9.0 Pie last year, you knew it was only a matter of time before you could run it on Genymotion Cloud. In December last year, we released a new version of our Desktop Android Emulator with Android 9.0 Pie compatibility.  Today, we’re happy to announce that we are releasing Android 9.0 on Genymotion Cloud Paas, available on AWS marketplace, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. This Android version is shipped with Genymotion’s latest version – Genymotion Cloud PaaS v6.0 so that you get a similar product experience across all devices.   Grab a slice of the Pie here: AWS Marketplace Google Cloud Platform Alibaba Cloud   Important: You may notice that Android 9.0 Pie on Genymotion Cloud is a bit slower than the previous versions. We are aware of the problem and are working on a patch to fix and save the ‘Life of Pie’.     Enough jokes on Pies, signing out now. Piece! Oh I mean… Peace! ✌️

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Genymotion Cloud PaaS v6.0 Release : New UI, HTTP API and important bug fixes

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And just like that, we are well into February… How time flies! Are you still hanging on to your 2019 resolutions?   Because we surely are crushing our New Year’s resolutions. How?  We have just released v6.0 of Genymotion Cloud Paas. What’s new about v6.0? What does that mean for you? Read on! We’ve got so much for you.   More Features Who doesn’t like more?   Feature #1 We have created a new UI to display the Virtual Machine and its metadata which you can easily embed inside your website. But if you prefer the old UI, it is still accessible using the `/iframe/` path.   Feature #2 Genymotion Cloud PaaS is more compatible with an extended list of browsers, viz. Safari 11+ Chrome 34+ Firefox 30+ Internet Explorer 11+ Edge 15+ Opera 22+   Feature #3 We’ve created HTTP APIs to control various android settings and configurations, such as the clipboard, android IDs & version, shell commands, GPS, orientation, battery and various other input or settings.   Bug Fixes We are not perfect but we are working on it!  Bug Fix #1 We fixed an SSL bug which prevented the latest version of Chrome to work on Mac OS X.   Bug Fix #2 We also fixed a GPS bug which prevented the GPS location to be correctly updated on Android 8.0 devices.   Updated images on all the marketplaces Last but not the least, we have updated Genymotion Cloud PaaS images on all the marketplaces i.e. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud. And they are available for all the Android versions i.e. Lollipop (Android 5.1) Marshmallow (Android 6.0) Nougat (Android 7.0) Oreo (Android 8.0) Sweet, ain’t it? No matter where your existing infrastructure is and whatever Android version you want to spawn, you will get the updated images of Genymotion Cloud. That’s it for today! Keep checking our blog for more news and updates in 2019. Until then… Enjoy Genymotion Cloud.

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Genymotion now available on Alibaba Cloud

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Our “on demand” offer of Genymotion Cloud was already available on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Now, to address the needs of even more users throughout the globe, we have made it accessible on Alibaba Cloud! Genymotion Cloud is now accessible on Alibaba Cloud   Ever thought of a world where you could go to a web portal, and in few clicks, spawn as many Android virtual devices in your browser, instantly, for a cost as low as $ 0.5 per hour? That’s Genymotion Cloud! It’s no surprise why more and more developers and QAs use it every day to build, test, deliver and run high quality apps. Our cloud-based emulators were so far only available on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. But we’ve worked hard to publish it on Alibaba Cloud. Now, teams with operations in Asia, or anyone with an existing infrastructure on Alibaba Cloud will be able to connect their systems to our Android devices without having to combine multiple platforms. Access Genymotion Cloud on Alibaba Cloud     As a reminder, Genymotion Cloud addresses different use cases (such as functional & performance monitoring, security testing, advertising, etc.) but one of the most important is that it allows to automate your tests on multiple virtual Android devices in parallel and at a very large scale, thus contributing to reduce your test lifecycle! It includes the features below: – Real-time in-browser streaming display – Compatibility with Google Play Services – Sensors (GPS, Accelerometer, Battery, Disk, Network, Calls & Texts) – Several Android versions (from Lollipop to Nougat) – Java API – Webcam as a Camera – Sound Support – GPU or Soft rendering – Compatibility with SSH and ADB – Kiosked application As usual, it’s provided for Android Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, and Oreo. Choose your flavor!   Android 5.1 Android 6.0 Android 7.0 Android 8.0 As usual, do not hesitate to give us feedback on Twitter!

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Genymotion Cloud (AWS-GCP)* 5.0: better performances and the launch on Google Cloud Platform!

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*Genymotion on Demand has been renamed Genymotion Cloud. Our “on demand” Genymotion Cloud offer already accessible on Amazon Web Services, is now also available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). And since good news never come alone, we managed to improve by up to 4 the performance thanks to some fixes. Enjoy! Genymotion Cloud is now accessible on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) As we encounter a real success on AWS, reaching the 1M hours of use, it was obvious to also release Genymotion Cloud on GCP in order to address the needs of developers and testers who use this cloud provider for their infrastructure! You can now enjoy cloud-based Android emulators with a per-second billing system to build, test, deliver and run high quality apps! Access Genymotion Cloud on GCP   As a reminder, Genymotion Cloud addresses different use cases (such as functional & performance monitoring, security testing, advertising, etc.) but one of the most important is that it allows to automate your tests on multiple virtual Android devices in parallel and at a very large scale, thus contributing to reduce your test lifecycle! It includes the features below: – Real-time in-browser streaming display – Compatibility with Google Play Services – Sensors (GPS, Accelerometer, Battery, Disk, Network, Calls & Texts) – Several Android versions (from Lollipop to Nougat) – Java API – Webcam as a Camera – Sound Support – GPU or Soft rendering – Compatibility with SSH and ADB – Kiosked application The product is already available on Google Cloud Launcher: Genymotion Cloud on GCP Android 5.1 (lollipop)     Genymotion Cloud on GCP Android 6.0 (marshmallow)    Genymotion Cloud on GCP Android 7.0 (nougat)   Enjoy better performances! – We’ve improved graphic performances by up to 4 compared to older versions and you can also access to GRID instances, perfect for apps with intense graphic UI! – We have added a screencast option on our capture widget so that you can record videos. – And finally, we have been able to make the Opens GApps installation easier and fixed some bugs. You’ll find more details in our release notes. Access Genymotion Cloud on GCP           Access Genymotion Cloud on AWS

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Access internal web services from Android devices running in the cloud using adb reverse

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It can be pretty common for your project to have some security and confidentiality problematics?. In some cases, your application may need to access an internal web service: It is a private business application accessing confidential internal information. It is an application accessing some web services currently under development and those services must remain private until finished.   Accessing those private backends while automating your tests in the cloud can be tricky. You could do it with a VPN, but it can be cumbersome. Adb reverse is another solution, easier to set up. Luckily for you, we managed to make it work with Genymotion Cloud ?. Let’s dig in and see how it works! In this article, we study the case of an app running automated tests from Genymotion Cloud, but accessing web services running on a private network.   TL;DR 1. On your CI server, run a local proxy (such as Squid, running on port 3128). 2. Start a Genymotion Cloud device using the gmsaas CLI: uuid=$(gmsaas instances start 143eb44a-1d3a-4f27-bcac-3c40124e2836 pixel3) gmsaas instances adbconnect $uuid This gives you access to the device through ADB. 3. Configure the proxy settings in the device using ADB: adb shell settings put global http_proxy localhost:3333 4. Bind your local proxy to the device proxy configuration using command: adb reverse tcp:3333 tcp:3128 5. Make sure your app handles Proxy System Settings. 6. Run your tests as usual. You can also go further by using different URLs depending on the build type… Everything is explained below ? Let’s start with a diagram of the situation: You can see a Genymotion Cloud device located on our datacenter launched by a continuous integration server running on your internal network. This is done through gmsaas,  the Genymotion command line tool. An ADB tunnel is created between the server and the virtual device, allowing to use `adb` on the device, as if it was running locally. On the other hand, your internal web service is not exposed and therefore cannot be accessed from the virtual device. How to overcome this, without exposing your internal web service to the Internet? ADB reverse to the rescue! ?   Accessing the infrastructure Run a local proxy on your CI server This piece of software is aimed to expose your internal web service located in your infrastructure to a local network connection occurring on your CI server. ADB is running on your CI server, and it is the only one that will connect to the proxy. You must run a single proxy server for all the devices needing access to your internal web service. There are plenty of ways to start a proxy on your server. Here is for example how to launch a Squid proxy using docker : First, make sure folder /opt/squid/cache is created. Also, you must set up a configuration file /opt/squid/squid.conf. You can use this simple configuration: # Squid proxy port declaration http_port 3128 # Allow local connections, including Docker’s host acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8     # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12  # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7       # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10      # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access deny all Then run the following docker command: docker run –name squid \ –publish 127.0.0.1:3128:3128 \ –volume /opt/squid/squid.conf:/etc/squid3/squid.conf \ –volume /opt/squid/cache:/var/spool/squid3 \ –volume /opt/squid/cache:/var/log/squid3 \ sameersbn/squid:3.3.8-12   Start the virtual device Before each test run, the CI server starts one or several cloud devices using gmsaas. Start a device using: uuid=$(gmsaas instances start 143eb44a-1d3a-4f27-bcac-3c40124e2836 pixel3) This command starts a new Pie virtual device on Genymotion Cloud. Once this command is finished, connect to the device with adb : gmsaas instances adbconnect $uuid, you can interact with it using `adb` commands, through the ADB tunnel. Configure the device to use a proxy Today, Genymotion Cloud virtual devices are disposable. It means they are deleted when you stop them and all their configuration and files are lost. You must configure them each time you start them. You can set the proxy configuration from the command line : adb shell settings put global http_proxy localhost:3333 Note: If you need a more precise configuration (configuring the proxy exclusion list for example), we recommend configuring a Genymotion Cloud virtual device through the Wifi Settings application and to share it on Genymotion Cloud with all your team as explained in the documentation. Bind the device’s configuration to your CI server’s proxy Now on one side, we have a Squid proxy running on the CI server bound to local port 3128 and on the other side, we have a device looking for a proxy server on its own local port 3333. ADB allows us to bind those two remote ports thanks to the `adb reverse` command. Run command: adb reverse tcp:3333 tcp:3128 This command redirects all the network traffic inside the device going to localhost:3333 to your computer localhost:3128. Once everything is set up, here is how your infrastructure behaves: All the network traffic of the cloud device goes through the ADBtunnel, arrives to the ADB server running on your CI computer and is redirected to the Squid proxy, exposing your internal web service to the remote virtual device. Your internal web service is then accessible from your app, as soon as you make sure it observes the proxy system settings. Note: The `adb reverse` command is supported on Android since Android 5.0 only, so make sure you select the right version.   Use the proxy system settings in your app You must be careful that your HTTP client observes the proxy settings that have been set up. If you are using OKHttp library, this is handled directly by the client, there is nothing to do from your part. If not using OKHttp library, you must set the proxy from your app source code, depending on your HTTP client.   Conclusion You did it! A simple setup where you decide to

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Partnership: Genymotion + Quamotion – Pushing cloud-based mobile automation testing a step further

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We’re proud to announce we’re partnering up with Quamotion. More than 100 Genymotion Cloud virtual devices will be part of the next release update of Quamotion WebDriver & Quamotion Cloud ☁? Read on to find out what’s in it for you ?   Access cloud-based Android virtual devices right from Quamotion WebDriver & Quamotion Cloud   If you’re familiar with the testing world, there’s a high chance you know Quamotion. Test automation, cloud testing, test reports… They cover a good chunk of the mobile software testing process ? As of the next release of Quamotion WebDriver and Quamotion Cloud, things are getting pushed a lot further as our in-house cloud-based Android virtual devices will join the party! Helping you to make your app shine even more ✨   Faster testing, increased coverage… Better time to market!   In short, running our in-house Android virtual devices via Quamotion’s solutions allows you to test more often, scale your tests and, by extension, find bugs faster, reduce your testing lifecycle and then fasten your time to market. ? ? Learn more about the benefits of this cloud-based mobile test automation solution. We’re deeply convinced Quamotion associated with Genymotion is the best combo you can get to cover the full application lifecycle ?  Learn more about Mobile Test Automation with Quamotion & Genymotion Learn more about Quamotion

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  3. Add the number of desired licenses to your shopping cart and click “Continue to Billing”
  4. Add a shipping address, or select one if you already created one.
  5.  In the next page, click “Get a quote”:
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  6. A quote will be automatically generated in PDF format.

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Personal Use - Free

Genymotion Desktop for personal use is not suitable for trial or POC: you will not get any assistance and some features will be disabled. If you have already selected “personal use” and wish to get a trial license, please contact our Sales at [email protected].

Technical support is not available with Genymotion Desktop free edition for personal use. For more details, please refer to Genymotion conditions of use (Personal Use).

The following features are not available in personal use mode:

  • Latest available Android version
  • Quick boot
  • Camera and Media injection widgets
  • Network profiles
  • gmtool full commands
  • GPS route simulation

Follow these steps to get Genymotion Desktop and activate personal use mode:

  1. Go to the Download page and get the latest version for your system.
  2. Follow the instructions from Genymotion Desktop quickstart guide to install Genymotion Desktop.
  3. Launch Genymotion and click CREATE to create an account. You should receive an activation email within an hour. If not, make sure to check your spam.
  4. After activating your account, return to Genymotion and log in with your credentials.
  5. Select personal use when prompted.
  6. Read Genymotion Desktop quickstart guide carefully to setup Genymotion for your needs.

Indie Plan Application Form

This plan is strictly reserved to individual workers (freelancers, self-employed).

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Educational Plan Application Form

The Educational plan is restricted to:

  • schools, teachers or students who wish to use Genymotion Desktop for tuition
  • students who wish to use Genymotion Desktop for a school project

It is subject to valid proof (student card, teacher card, etc.)

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