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-Android Emulator changes:
-=========================
-
-Versions:
-
- 1.0 => SDK M3 release
- 1.1 => SDK M5 release
- 1.2 => Internal release (build 72264)
- 1.3 => Internal release (build 77780)
- 1.4 => Internal release (build 84853)
- 1.5 => SDK 0.9_r1
- 1.6 => SDK 1.0_r1
- 1.7 => SDK 1.0_r2
- 1.8 => SDK 1.1
- 1.9 => (unreleased, planned, named likely to change)
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.8 and 1.9
-
-IMPORTANT CHANGES:
-
-- Many features have been integrated from upstream QEMU sources, including
- the new TCG code generator used by the ARM translator. This should result
- in slightly faster execution speed on all supported platforms.
-
-- The emulator now requires that you specify a virtual device name when
- starting the emulator, prefixed with the '@' sign. For example, to start
- the 'foo' virtual device, type:
-
- emulator @foo
-
- Each AVD (Android Virtual Device) corresponds to a directory used to store
- mutable disk images, an optional system image/kernel/sdcard, plus some
- configuration file(s).
-
- The command-line tool 'android' that comes with the SDK can be used to
- create/list/remove virtual devices on your system.
-
- Note that the '@<name>' form is a convenience shortcut for '-avd <name>'.
- It is thus possible to place options after the AVD name on your command
- line, as in:
-
- emulator @foo -verbose -shell
-
- Finally, when building the Android platform source tree, an AVD name is not
- required and 'emulator' will start a new emulator instance exactly as
- previously.
-
-- Hardware emulation is now limited to the corresponding Android Virtual
- Device's configuration. This means it is now possible to not emulate
- a touch-screen, trackball, dpad, keyboard, modem, etc...
-
- Note that in the case of the Android build system, all hardware properties
- are enabled by default, so this only affects "normal" virtual devices
- created with the 'android' tool.
-
-- The emulator now supports capturing network packets to a file.
- You can either use the new -tcpdump <file> command-line option, or use
- the new console 'network capture start <file>' command (then use
- 'network capture stop' to stop it).
-
- This captures all ethernet packets on the virtual LAN, so this includes
- ARP, UDP, TCP, etc... The file is in libpcap format and can be opened with
- external tools like WireShark for analysis.
-
-OTHER:
-
-- The file in ~/.android/default.keyset was ignored, unless you used
- '-keyset default' explicitely. It is now loaded automatically when
- available.
-
-- Environment variable ANDROID_SDK_ROOT can be used to specifiy the location
- of the SDK.
-
-- Environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME can be used to specify the location
- of the '.android' data directory.
-
-- A new console command 'avd name' can be used to query the name of the
- virtual device running in the emulator. Note that it will be '<build>'
- if you run from the Android build system.
-
- Also, the emulator's window title also displays the AVD name now.
-
-- The option '-memory <size>' has been added. <memory> must be an integer
- specifying the amount of physical RAM in the emulated device in megabytes.
- The default value is 96.
-
-- The '-skindir <path>' option now requires that you specify a '-skin <name>'
- option as well.
-
-- Better handling of Audio on Linux for the EsounD and Alsa backends
-
-- Fullscreen toggle should now work on Windows and OS X. On Linux, the
- toggle will not switch the display resolution anymore (which resulted
- in distorted images).
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.6 and 1.7
-
-IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:
-
-- Properly create ~/.android directory when needed.
-
-- Do not leave temporary files in Android app-specific directory on Win32
-
-- Support for HTTP/HTTPS proxies has been considerably improved and should now
- "just work" with a lot more HTTP proxies. In case of problem, use the
- -debug-proxy option to dump debugging data to stderr.
-
-OTHER:
-
-- Trackball emulation has changed. First, the awkward "Control-T" keybinding
- is gone. Instead, you can now:
-
- - press 'Delete' to show the trackball and have it disappear as soon
- as your release the key.
-
- - press 'F6' to perform a persistent trackball mode toggle.
-
- Also, trackball emulation is fixed in rotated/landscape mode now.
-
-- New option '-nand-limits <limits>' allows you to send a signal to a remote
- process when a read or write threshold on flash storage is reached. This is
- only useful for hardcore Android system hackers.
-
-- Fix emulator build on recent Cygwin releases (the -mno-cygwin headers do not
- tolerate the _GNU_SOURCE macro definition anymore)
-
-- Fix Win32 emulator to support SD Card images larger than 2 GiB
-
-- The non-Android build system has been completely rewritten to allow building
- the emulator on Linux x86_64. Also, there is now a single Makefile that
- drives the build in both Android and non-Android modes.
-
-- '-qemu <other-options>' works again
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.5 and 1.6
-
-IMPORTANT CHANGES:
-
-- Emulator now saves the user image in <android>/SDK1.0/
-
-OTHER:
-
-- Get rid of EsounD-related freezes on Linux (again)
-
-- Fix the documentation in -help-audio. '-audio list' doesn't work, one
- needs to call -help-audio-out and -help-audio-in to get the list of valid
- audio backends
-
-- Fix scrollwheel Dpad emulation in rotated mode. before that, using the
- scroll-wheel would always generated Dpad Up/Down events, even when in
- landscape mode.
-
-- Re-enable CPU fault emulation in case of unaligned data access. this was
- previously disabled because it crashed the emulated kernel in previous
- releases.
-
-- The emulator no longer prints an obscure warning when it doesn't find
- the emulator.cfg configuration file in ~/.android.
-
- 'broken configuration file doesn't have a 'window' element'
-
-- Removed a bunch of obsolete options (e.g. -console, -adb-port, etc...)
-
-- Setting the network speed through the console or the -netspeed option will
- properly modify the connectivity icon on the device.
-
-- Setting the GSM voice registration state to 'roaming' in the console will
- properly modify the voice icon on the device
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.4 and 1.5
-
-IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:
-
-- Fix spurious discards of SMS messages when using two emulators.
-
-OTHER:
-
-- Get rid of EsounD-related freezes on Linux (again)
-
-- Fix the documentation in -help-audio. '-audio list' doesn't work; one
- needs to call -help-audio-out and -help-audio-in to get the list of valid
- audio backends
-
-- Fix scrollwheel Dpad emulation in rotated mode. before that, using the
- scroll-wheel would always generated Dpad Up/Down events, even when in
- landscape mode.
-
-- Re-enable CPU fault emulation in case of unaligned data access. This was
- previously disabled because it crashed the emulated kernel in previous
- releases.
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.3 and 1.4
-
-IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:
-
-- fix for audio-related Linux startup freezes when using the 'esd' and 'alsa'
- backends
-
-- the number of audio buffers in the Windows backend has been incremented.
- this gets rid of audio chopiness issues on Vista (and sometimes on XP too)
-
-NEW FEATURES:
-
-NEW CONSOLE COMMANDS:
-
-- new 'geo fix <lontitude> <latitude> [<altitude>]' command allows you to
- send a simple GPS fix to the emulated system, without the headaches of
- NMEA 1083 formatting.
-
-OTHER BUG FIXES:
-
-- fixed the -audio, -audio-in and -audio-out options (the <backend> values
- were sometimes ignored)
-
-REGRESSIONS:
-
-OTHER:
-
-- the transitional '-qemud' option introduced in 1.3 is now gone. its
- behaviour is now the default.
-
-- use the new '-old-system' option if you need to use a 1.4+ emulator binary
- with older system images. if you don't use it, GSM and GPS emulation will
- not work correctly (among other things).
-
-- the obsolete '-oldradio' option is now gone
-
-- on some Unix systems, SIGALRM is blocked by default, so unblock it when
- creating the alarm timer
-
-- the 'esd' and 'alsa' libraries dump a lot of error messages to the console
- by default on Linux. these are now disabled unless you use '-debug audio'
-
-- added the '-help-char-devices' help topic that describe the specification
- of the <device> parameter of options like -serial, -gps, -shell-serial,
- etc...
-
-KNOWN ISSUES:
-
-- no support for video input
-- no support for mutable SIM Card emulation yet
-- no support for bluetooth
-- no support for WiFi
-
-- on some Linux machines, the emulator might get stuck at startup. this
- seems to be related to audio input support. try starting with
- '-audio-in none' or even '-noaudio' to disable sound, or choose a
- different audio backend by defining QEMU_AUDIO_DRV to an appropriate
- value (read below).
-
- you can also select different audio backends for both output and input
- by defining QEMU_AUDIO_OUT_DRV and QEMU_AUDIO_IN_DRV independently.
-
-- on Windows, the emulator takes about 10-15% of the CPU even when the
- emulated system is idle. this is a known issue related to QEMU's internal
- event loop and Winsock. this should be fixed in a future emulator release.
-
-- GPS emulation only if you use the '-qemud' option. this is an experimental
- option that is soon going to be the default. without this option, the
- emulated system will start but GPS emulation will not work.
-
- for the record, 'qemud' is a serial port multiplexer that is used to
- multiplex several communication channels between the emulator and the
- emulated system, though a single serial port.
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.2 and 1.3
-
-IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:
-
-NEW FEATURES:
-
-- '-audio-in <backend>' allows you to select the audio input backend from the
- command line. this is equivalent to defining QEMU_AUDIO_IN_DRV=<backend>
-
- '-audio-out <backend>' works for the audio output, and '-audio <backend>'
- will select both input and output at the same time
-
-- '-debug <tags>' has replaced the old '-verbose-<tag1> -verbose-<tag2> ...'
- debugging option. <tags> is a comma-separated list of debug tags
- (see -help-debug-tags for a complete list). you can also use the special
- value 'all' to indicate all debug tags, or prefix a '-' before a tag
- name to disable it. for example:
-
- -debug all,-audio
-
- enables all debugging except audio. '-debug-<tag>' still works though.
-
- note that while '-verbose-<tag>' is deprecated, '-verbose' is still supported
- as an alias to '-debug-init'
-
-- '-keyset <file>' allows you to specific the keyset file to use. the default
- is still ~/.android/default.keyset on Unix. for Windows, use -help-keyset
- to get its default location (which differs between XP and Vista)
-
-
-NEW CONSOLE COMMANDS:
-
-- the 'geo nmea <sentence>' can be used to send a NMEA 1083 sentence as if
- it came from an emulated GPS unit. NOTE: this doesn't work unless you
- also use the '-qemud' option (see KNOWN ISSUES below)
-
-OTHER BUG FIXES:
-
-- severe color artefact issues when scaling the emulator window < 1.0 were
- fixed.
-
-- fix rare random emulator freezes on Linux by disabling the 'dynticks' timer.
-
-REGRESSIONS:
-
-OTHER:
-
-- the ambiguous '-console' option is now obsolete. use '-shell' instead
-
-- the new '-shell-serial <device>' allows you to specify a device to
- connect a root shell session to the emulated system.
-
-- the '-debug-kernel' option is now known as '-show-kernel' (the -debug-
- prefix is reserved for strict emulator debugging features)
-
-- '-adb-port' has been removed from the list of options. similarly
- '-port <port>' will accept an odd port number, but will print a warning
- that it is using <port>-1 instead.
-
-- MMX is used on x86 to speed up window rescaling.
-
-- a new '-qemud' option is required to have GPS support work in this
- SDK (either through '-gps <device>' or the 'geo nmea <sentence>'
- console command)
-
- this option is purely experimental and will soon become the default.
-
-KNOWN ISSUES:
-
-- no support for video input
-- no support for mutable SIM Card emulation yet
-- no support for bluetooth
-- no support for WiFi
-
-- on some Linux machines, the emulator might get stuck at startup. this
- seems to be related to audio input support. try starting with
- '-audio-in none' or even '-noaudio' to disable sound, or choose a
- different audio backend by defining QEMU_AUDIO_DRV to an appropriate
- value (read below).
-
- you can also select different audio backends for both output and input
- by defining QEMU_AUDIO_OUT_DRV and QEMU_AUDIO_IN_DRV independently.
-
-- on Windows, the emulator takes about 10-15% of the CPU even when the
- emulated system is idle. this is a known issue related to QEMU's internal
- event loop and Winsock. this should be fixed in a future emulator release.
-
-- GPS emulation only if you use the '-qemud' option. this is an experimental
- option that is soon going to be the default. without this option, the
- emulated system will start but GPS emulation will not work.
-
- for the record, 'qemud' is a serial port multiplexer that is used to
- multiplex several communication channels between the emulator and the
- emulated system, though a single serial port.
-
-==============================================================================
-Changes between 1.1 and 1.2
-
-
-IMPORTANT BUG FIXES:
-
-- fixed a typo that prevented the F9/F10 keyboard shortcuts from working
- properly, making non-programatically tracing unusable.
-
-- halve the emulator's memory requirements, saving around 130 megabytes
- of memory by changing the way flash images are accessed (we now use
- temporary files instead)
-
-- this emulator binary should be 10% to 20% faster than previous ones on
- the Windows and OS X platforms. for faster boots, you may also want to
- use the -no-boot-anim option described below to speed up the initial
- boot sequence as well on slow machines.
-
-- proper rotation support when using Keypad 7/9 to switch between layouts
- in the default HVGA skin. no need to use Ctrl-PageDown anymore
-
-- the -http-proxy <proxy> option didn't work correctly on Windows (unless
- you were very lucky).
-
-- general socket handling code on Windows has been significantly improved.
-
-
-NEW FEATURES:
-
-- the console port number of a given emulator instance is now displayed in
- its window's title bar.
-
-- voice/sms are automatically forwarded to other emulator instances running
- on the same machine, as long as you use their console port number as the
- destination phone number.
-
- for example, if you have two emulator running, the first one will usually
- use console port 5554, and the second one will use port 5556
-
- then dialing 5556 on the 1st emulator will generate an incoming call on
- the 2nd emulator. you can also hold/unhold calls as well.
-
- this also works when sending SMS messages from one emulator to the other
-
-- the help system has been totally revamped:
-
- * -help prints a summary of all options and help topics
- * -help-<option> prints option-specific help
- * -help-<topic> prints various topical help text
- * -help-all prints *all* help content at once
-
-- the emulator now tries to automatically detect the host time zone and sends
- it to the emulated system at startup (through the GSM modem). there is also
- a new '-timezone <timezone>' option to be able to specify a different one.
-
- IMPORTANT: the <timezone> name must be in zoneinfo format, i.e.
- Area/Location, human-friendly abbreviations like "PST" or "CET"
- will not work. examples are:
-
- America/Los_Angeles
- Europe/Paris
-
-- the emulator can now use up to 4 distinct DNS servers (instead of only one).
- by default, they are taken from your system's list, which is obtained by
- calling GetNetworkParams() on Win32, and parsing /etc/resolv.conf on
- Unix.
-
-- a new '-dns-server <server>' option can be used to specify a comma-separated
- list of alternative DNS servers to be used by the emulated system, instead of
- the system's default.
-
-- a new '-scale <fraction>' option allows you to scale the emulator
- window. <fraction> can be a number between 0.1 and 3.0.
-
- you can also use '-scale <value>dpi', (e.g. '-scale 110dpi') to indicate the
- resolution of your host monitor screen. it will be divided by the emulated
- device's resolution to get an absolute scale.
-
-- a new '-dpi-device <dpi>' option allows you to specific the resolution of
- the emulated device's screen. Note that this is not required: the default
- used is 165, which is the average of several prototypes we've been working
- with.
-
-- add a new '-port <port>' option to specify which port the emulator should
- bind to for the console, instead of letting it guess. <port> must be an
- *even* integer between 5554 and 5584 included. the corresponding ADB port
- will be <port>+1
-
-- [DEPRECATED] add a new '-adb-port <port>' option to specify which port the
- emulator should bind to, instead of letting it guess. <port> must be an odd
- integer between 5555 and 5585 included. the corresponding control console
- will be on <port>-1
-
- NOTE: -adb-port is deprecated, don't use it, it will probably disappear
- NOTE2: you cannot use both -port and -adb-port at the same time.
-
-- a new '-no-boot-anim' options tells the emulated system to disable the boot
- animation. on slow systems, this can *significantly* reduce the time to
- boot the system in the emulator.
-
-- you can now redefine the emulator's keybinding by writing a 'keyset' file
- and use '-keyset <filename>' to use it when starting the emulator. use
- -help-keyset and -help-keyset-file for all details.
-
- this allows you to use the emulator effectively on keyboards which don't
- have a keypad, by using different keys..
-
-- you can now toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode at runtime by
- pressing Alt-Enter (only works on Linux at the moment !!)
-
-- use '-audio-out <backend>' and '-audio-in <backend>' to change the output
- and input audio backends used by the emulator. see -help-audio-out and
- -help-audio-in for a list of valid values.
-
- this is equivalent to setting the QEMU_AUDIO_OUT_DRV and QEMU_AUDIO_IN_DRV
- environment variables.
-
- use '-audio <backend>' to set both the input and output backends at the
- same time. this is equivalent to setting the QEMU_AUDIO_DRV environment
- variable.
-
-
-NEW CONSOLE COMMANDS:
-
-- the new 'power' command can be used to control the power/battery state of
- the emulated device.
-
-- the new 'event send' command can be used to send simulated hardware events
- to the Android Linux kernel. each event must be in the form
- <type>:<code>:<value> where:
-
- <type> is either an integer or a corresponding string alias
- (use "event types" to see a list of aliases)
-
- <code> is either an integer or a corresponding string alias
- that depends on the value of <type> (use "event codes <type>"
- to see a list of these aliases)
-
- <value> is an integer
-
- NOTE: Be warned that it is very easy to confuse the kernel about the state
- of emulated hardware by sending the wrong event. An *excellent*
- knowledge of the Linux kernel internals is encouraged before playing
- with "event send".
-
-- the new 'event text <textMessage>' command can be used to simulate
- keypresses of small text messages, where <textMessage> is an utf-8 string.
-
-- the new 'avd stop' and 'avd start' command can be used to stop/start the
- emulation. you can also use 'avd status' to query the current state.
-
-- the new 'window scale <scale>' command allows you to change the scale of
- the emulator window dynamically. <scale> is either an integer followed by
- the 'dpi' suffix (e.g. '120dpi') or a real number between 0.1 and 3.0.
-
- in the first case, <scale> specifies your monitor dpi; in the second one,
- the new window scale itself.
-
-
-OTHER BUG FIXES:
-
-- in case of SDL_Init() failure, print the SDL error message.
-- disable networking code's logging to /tmp/slirp.log
-- the emulator now works with 2GB SD Card files
-- the emulator doesn't prevent the screensaver to kick in on OS X anymore
-- the -onion and -onion-alpha options now work properly
-- a second emulator instance trying to use the same SD Card instance than a
- first one will no longer crash
-- it's now possible to properly start the emulator in the background on all
- Unix shells (e.g. "emulator &") without being interrupted/stopped by a
- SIGTTIN or SIGTTOU signal.
-- fixed a bug in the SMS emulation that happened when using GSM 7-bit escaped
- characters, i.e. anything in the following: [|]~\{}^
-- fixed a small regression where -data <foo> would fail if the file <foo>
- did not exist.
-
-
-REGRESSIONS:
-
-- the -flash-keys options doesn't work anymore
-
-
-KNOWN ISSUES:
-
-- no support for video input
-- no support for mutable SIM Card emulation yet
-- no support for bluetooth
-- no support for WiFi
-
-- on some Linux machines, the emulator might get stuck at startup. this
- seems to be related to audio input support. try starting with
- '-audio-in none' or even '-noaudio' to disable sound, or choose a different
- audio backend by defining QEMU_AUDIO_DRV to an appropriate value
- (read below).
-
- you can also select different audio backends for both output and input
- by defining QEMU_AUDIO_OUT_DRV and QEMU_AUDIO_IN_DRV independently.
-
-- on Windows, the emulator takes about 10-15% of the CPU even when the
- emulated system is idle. this is a known issue related to QEMU's internal
- event loop and Winsock. this should be fixed in a future emulator release.
-
-OTHER:
-
-- you can now use -debug-<component> and/or -debug-no-<component> to
- enable or disable the debug messages of a given emulator component. this
- can be very useful for troubleshooting. for all details, use -help-debug
- and -help-debug-tags
-
-- you can also use '-debug <tags>' where <tags> is a comma-separated list
- of component names, optionally prefixed by a single '-'. see -help-debug
- and -help-debug-tags for all details
-
-- you can now define the ANDROID_VERBOSE environment variable as a list
- of "debug" items (each <item> corresponds to a -debug-<item> option).
- for example, defining:
-
- ANDROID_VERBOSE=socket,keys
-
- is equivalent to using "-debug socket,keys" when invoking the emulator
-
-- as a special case, -debug-slirp enables logging of the router/firewall
- operations to a temporary file (e.g. /tmp/android/slirp.log). you can
- also specify a logging bitmask with the ANDROID_SLIRP_LOGMASK environment
- variable (the default is a mask of 7).
-
-- removed many obsolete / unused source files from the repository. also
- performed a rather heavy cleanup of the sources to make them somewhat
- more manageable.
-
-- integrate dynticks support from upstream QEMU depot. this only allows one
- to provide more precise timing accuracy in the guest under Linux.
- (NOTE: disabled in the source code, since it seems that it freezes
- the emulator sometimes)
-
-- audio input is now working on OS X, Windows and Linux. on Linux, there
- are four different backends supported: EsounD, ALSA, OSS and SDL. they
- are accessed through dlopen/dlsym, which means that the emulator binary
- will run on any system.
-
- you can specify a given backend by defining the QEMU_AUDIO_DRV environment
- variable to one of these values:
-
- alsa
- esd
- sdl
- oss
- none
-
- note that the "sdl" audio backend is the most compatible, but doesn't
- support audio input at all !!
-
-- a new option '-cpu-delay <delay>' can be used to slow down the CPU
- emulation. the <delay> is an integer between 0 and 1000. note that it
- doesn't necessarily scale linearly with effective performance.
-
- the delay process is not exactly deterministic. this is just a hack that
- may disappear or be completely re-implemented in the future
-
-- some new "gsm" and "sms" subcommands were added to the control console.
- they are used internally by the voice/sms auto-forwarder and are probably
- not very useful to typical developers
-
-- some code has been added to support save/restore of the AVD state to/from
- a file. however this is not properly tested yet, and requires that you
- use exactly the same options and disk images when reloading the AVD state.
-
-- added a new -cache <file> option to specify the cache partition image
- file. the default is to use a temporary file instead
-
-- added a new -report-console <socket> option to be able to report the
- automatically assigned console port to a remote third-party (e.g. a
- script) before starting the emulation. see the output of -help for all
- the details
-
-- (only useful to Android engineers)
- the audio sub-system is now compiled in its own static library (called
- libqemu-audio.a), which gets copied to the Android "prebuilt/Linux/qemu"
- directory. this is done to avoid forcing all developers to install various
- development packages on Linux, as well as all build servers. there is also
- now a script named "distrib/update-audio.sh" which will update the depot
- file automatically for you: call it whenever you change the audio sources.