Genymotion Desktop Release Notes

New features

• Device Link: Use your smartphone to capture touch events and motion sensor data.
• Motion Sensors: Emulate accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope sensors. You can also use your smartphone as a sensor provider via the Device Link feature.
• High-Resolution Camera Injection: Now available with updated Android images (version 12.0 and above).
• Gamepad support: Connect your gamepad controller to play Android games for a more immersive experience (available for Android 12 and higher).
• Dynamic Root Access: Now available for Android 12 and higher.

See our blog post to see them in action.

Changes

• The Remote Control widget has been replaced with the Device Link feature.
• Added preview for paid features.

Fixes & Improvements

• Improved support for High-DPI screens.
• FIX: Cut/Copy/Paste keyboard shortcuts now work on macOS.
• Enhanced error messaging for APK installation failures.
• SECURITY: Restricted QEMU port forwarding to the localhost interface.
• FIX: Fixed screenshot issues in landscape mode when using the Capture widget.

Known issues

• The Device Link app may occasionally display a blank screen (when this happens, mirroring is unavailable, but other features still work).
• The Dummy Camera does not support HD, but image injection works.
• The Motion Sensors 3D scene is disabled on some systems, such as Mac, due to the lack of OpenGL 3.3 support.

Bug Fixes

Genymotion Desktop 3.7.1 fixes a regression introduced by Genymotion Desktop 3.7.0.

The bug is related to Virtual Device deployment when installing Genymotion Desktop 3.7.0 for the first time, see the following summary to know if you have been impacted:

New features

• Added the ability to toggle root access dynamically at runtime or during the deployment of a virtual device.
• Added news and updates feed.

Bug Fixes

• Fix Virtual Device startup issue when using a proxy.
• Removed obsolete startup operations. Can improve startup performance in some cases.

New features

• Added Biometrics widget, able to pass fingerprint authentication.
• Added the ability to disable Quickboot with QEMU.
• Android camera inputs are persistent after reboot of virtual devices.
• Added -n option to genyshell, allowing you to specify the default virtual device to use.

Changes

• QEMU is now the default hypervisor on Linux and macOS.
• Improved QEMU capabilities by using host CPU.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the use of genyshell with several virtual devices and QEMU.
• Fixed VMHeap size change being ignored.

Check our blog post to Biometrics widget in action!