Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Android Studio<\/i><\/p>\n <\/i><\/div>\n Testing multi-device interaction with an Android emulator is now easier than ever. Whether you’re creating multiplayer games, expanding your mobile application across form factors, or launching virtual devices that require a device connection, Android emulators now natively support these developer experiences.<\/p>\n Previously, connecting multiple Android virtual devices (AVDs) together caused a lot of friction. Just connecting two emulators required manually managing complex port forwarding rules.<\/p>\n You can now take advantage of a new networking stack for Android emulators that brings zero-configuration peer-to-peer connectivity to all your AVDs.<\/p>\n The new networking stack for Android emulators changes the way emulators communicate. Previously, each virtual device operated on its own local area network (LAN), effectively isolating it from other AVDs. The new Wi-Fi network stack changes this by creating a shared virtual network backplane that bridges all running instances on the same host machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Advanced emulator networking supports a wide range of multi-device development scenarios:\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n The new emulator networking stack allows multiple AVDs to share a virtual network, <\/i><\/p>\n Enabling direct peer-to-peer communication with zero configuration.<\/i><\/p>\n The new networking capability is enabled by default in the latest Android emulator release (36.5), available via Android Studio SDK Manager<\/a>. Simply update your emulator and launch multiple devices!<\/p>\n If you need to disable this feature or want to learn more, please refer to our Documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n As always, we appreciate any feedback. If you find any bugs or issues please file an issue<\/a>. Additionally you can also become a part of our vibrant Android developer community Linkedin<\/a>, medium<\/a>, youtube<\/a>Or x<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Android Studio Testing multi-device interaction with an Android emulator is now easier than ever. Whether you’re creating multiplayer games, expanding your mobile application across form factors, or launching virtual devices that require a device connection, Android emulators now natively support these developer experiences. Previously, connecting multiple Android virtual devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1601,20509,20318,20508,2388],"class_list":["post-61549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-android","tag-emulator","tag-interaction","tag-multidevice","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61551,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61549\/revisions\/61551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Interconnecting Emulator Instances<\/h3>\n
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