tag:Android

TIL: How to Run Android Emulator Using avd on Hyprland Recently, I was having issues when trying to run an Android Emulator using Android Studio (avd). When I would try to run an Emulator from the device manager, I would get the following The emulator process for avd xxx has terminated error. Looking deeper into the logs at ~/.local/cache/Google/AndroidStudio2023.1/log/idea.log, I noticed the following: 2024-02-20 12:01:45,859 [ 781674] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Android emulator version 33.1.24.0 (build_id 11237101) (CL:N/A) 2024-02-20 12:01:45,859 [ 781674] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Found systemPath /home/haseebmajid/Android/Sdk/system-images/android-34/google_apis_playstore/x86_64/ 2024-02-20 12:01:46,037 [ 781852] WARN - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Failed to process .ini file /home/haseebmajid/.config/.android/avd/../avd/Pixel_7_Pro_API_34.avd/quickbootChoice.ini for reading. 2024-02-20 12:01:46,053 [ 781868] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Storing crashdata in: , detection is enabled for process: 194632 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Fatal: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Duplicate loglines will be removed, if you wish to see each individual line launch with the -log-nofilter flag. 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Increasing RAM size to 3072MB 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Available platform plugins are: xcb. 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Warning: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "/home/haseebmajid/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/qt/plugins" ((null):0, (null)) 2024-02-20 12:01:46,054 [ 781869] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - ((null):0, (null)) 2024-02-20 12:01:46,055 [ 781870] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Fatal: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Note, I did have qtwayland5 installed on my Ubuntu machine. So get it working based on this log line Available platform plugins are: xcb. The simplest thing I could think of was to run ...

In this post, we will go over how you can test your SvelteKit app on your Android device in Firefox. If you’re like me you are building an app that you want users to use on both normal PCs (laptops, Desktop) and their smartphones. But the question arises how can we debug our app on a smartphone? One way to achieve this is to use Firefox and remote debugging, you will need to connect your smartphone via USB to your device running the SvelteKit app i.e. your Laptop. ...

In this article, we will go over how you can use add the new adaptive app icons to your Android app. In his article I will be using a React Native project, so the structure of your Android app may vary. Adaptive Icons Adaptive icons are a new feature introduced in Android 8.0 (API level 26). It allows your app icon to be displayed using multiple shapes across different devices and launchers, more information available here. The main advantage of using adaptive icons is so that we don’t have to have to create multiple icons, i.e. round and square versions of your app icon. You provide two layers, a foreground and the background which is usually just a colour. ...

In this article, I will show you how can automate the publishing of your AAB/APK to the Google Play Console. We will be using the Gradle Play Publisher (GPP) plugin to do automate this process for us. Using this plugin we cannot only automate the publishing and release of our app, we can also update the release notes, store listing (including photos) all from GitLab CI. Note: In this article I will assume that you are using Linux and React Native version >= 0.60. ...

In this article I will show how you can use the GitLab CI with React Native to create a binary which can be published to the Google Play Store. Prerequisites Google Developers Account A working React Native Android project Keystore First, we have to generate a keystore which we will use to sign our APK. To do this run the commands below, follow all the instructions and keep the file safe. ...

My home PC runs Windows for various conveniences, such as gaming. However, for development, I run an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) and Genymotion (on Windows) for testing my app. Genymotion also uses VirtualBox to run its Android emulators. So we work out how to let two VMs running on the same host communicate with each other (Ubuntu and Android Emulator). Please Note: This will also work for VMWare Player. Solution There are a few networking options we can choose from when setting up a VM. ...