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by mmahemoff 4701 days ago
Genymotion is a breath of fresh air for Android development, much needed.

Recording screencasts is a big win. It was previously too slow using emulators or screen cappers. There are a few Android apps that do it directly on the device, but you have to root it to run them!

Also, it's great for co-workers who don't have an Android device. e.g. we're porting to iOS app right now, and the iOS developer can see Android features without having an Android device.
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wslh 4701 days ago
>Recording screencasts is a big win. It was previously too slow using emulators or screen cappers

But can you use any screen capture software for the emulators?

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wslh 4701 days ago
Their web page doesn't bring so much information about price? if it will cost money I hope Google will acquire it and make it free.
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tht4 4701 days ago
As I see, it's free, but you have to register in order to download Genymotion.
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mjn 4701 days ago
The core is open-source and available on GitHub [1], but seems to be scattered across a number of repositories. Not clear if it's buildable purely from the repository currently (I haven't tried).

It was previously an independent open-source project, AndroVM [2], which Genymobile acquired, but they agreed to keep the core open-source [3].

[1] https://github.com/androvm

[2] http://androvm.org/

[3] http://androvm.org/blog/blog/2013/05/16/androvm-moving-to-a-...

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