Genymotion Desktop Release Notes

This version brings a large update to our rendering stack, improving performances with the latest versions of Android, especially on macOS.

It also comes with a rewrite of our camera support and a simplified camera widget. This rewrite yields better performance and makes the camera work again on macOS Catalina.

The user interface has received lots of small touch-ups, with more important changes expected to land for 3.1.0:

• On Windows and Linux, the Device Manager got its menubar moved to the toolbar, saving vertical space.
• The Emulator has been updated as well: we reorganized the widgets in the toolbar, streamlined the layout of most widgets and refreshed the navigation icons.
• We also rethought the keyboard shortcuts to make them easier to use and remember. We carefully chose them to match their widget as much as possible and to avoid conflicts with the shortcuts of your operating system.

Drag’n’dropping images and videos on a device is now more convenient: when you drop a media file, the Android media library is automatically refreshed, ensuring your media files immediately appear in the gallery, without having to restart the device.

We added the 440 and 450 DPI buckets, making it possible for you to more closely match real-life devices like the Google Pixel 3.

We also improved network error reporting and logging, making it easier for you to understand when things go wrong and for our support team to diagnose tricky errors.

Finally, we made some last minute adjustments for Android 10. It should be available as a preview soon.

We have updated the bundled adb to version 1.0.41.

The stability when resuming from hibernation on Windows has been improved.

Some error messages have been reworded to be less confusing.

Deprecation notice

Gmtool is going to be removed from the next feature version of Genymotion Desktop: 3.1.0. We encourage all gmtool users to switch to Genymotion Cloud SaaS for their continuous integration needs. Genymotion Cloud SaaS has its own tool to manage virtual devices: gmsaas. If you need any help to migrate, do not hesitate to contact us.

Corrections

We have fixed an incompatibility with the adb tool bundled in the platform-tools 28.0.2 package of the Android SDK, which caused failures to start virtual devices.

This new version of adb changed the behavior of the “adb connect <device>:<port>” command by making the “port” part mandatory. This broke Genymotion Desktop in a few places where it did not pass the port. We have adjusted the way we call “adb connect” and also updated the version we ship with the product to match the one in platform-tools 28.0.2.