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Bryans S.

Information Technology Staff

Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/13/2019

"Genymotion"

5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

The company can access virtual devices as guest operating system and still run windows as host operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Genymotion will run on a machine with atleast 3 Gb of ram or the machine will be very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/10/2019

"A way more robust mobile emulator than the one provided by Android Studio"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

Genymotion is based on Virtual Box to provide reliable and performant virtual mobile testing devices. You can customize any parameter for the device which gives you a lot of flexibility. The device is detected as physical device instead of as an emulator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Each device is a Virtual Box VM wich means that if you don't keep an eye on the different virtual devices created, you will end will a bloated up hard drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genymotion:

You should consider paying for the cloud solution, that way you won't need to create the virtual devices locally and everything will be stored in a cloud server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genymotion solving and how is that benefiting you?

The virtual devices are much more stable and performant as the ones created by the official emulator. You will save e lot of time and money because using Genymotion will reduce the physical testing devices that you company will need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mwangi W.

Android Developer

Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/26/2018

"Best android emulator for testing and debugging"

5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

I have been using genymotion for more than three years now while developing android applications with android studio. Genymotion consumes less computer resources compared to other android virtual devices and also emulates most of device features. In the current edition genymotion is also easy to connect with local web servers such as wamp, xampp and lamp. Its also easy to add more android virtual devices to test an android application in as many android versions as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Genymotion is my favorite android emulator and I do not find anything I dislike in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genymotion:

Genymotion is the best android emulator to use while debugging and testing android applications. It consumes less computer resourses and avails many real android devices to a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genymotion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Genymotion have been an important tool whenever we are developing android applications. Its makes the processes of testing and debugging very easy making every develper more productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Axel M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/8/2018

"Best alternative to slow android studio avd"

5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

Genymotion is very easy to use to begin with. It also gives developers access to different devices of different android versions that consumes less ram than android avds in android studio. Genymotion also lets me to easily set dummy device location while testing location aware mobile applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Genymotion is the best alternative to the slow android avds in android studio. It saves me time so I would only reccommend it to those still using android studio avds instead of genymotion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genymotion:

If you are looking for a faster android emulator to test, build and debugg android applications just go for genymotion. Its faster and easily integrates with android studio. In short am just trying to help you save time and increase productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genymotion solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used Genymotion in building, debugging and testing android applications. Its easy to integrate with the current version of android studio, its fast not like the android emulators thats comes with android studio, its easy to add new devices and its also easy to install gapps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Rebecca T.

GED Program Manager | Data Manager

Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/29/2018

"Straightforward device simulator"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

Genymotion is extremely easy to get up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

If anything, the UI is a little bit unpleasant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jorge Alberto H.

Business Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/29/2017

"Poor performance launching our native application"

3/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

Easy to install the app, easy to sign up and easy to use the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Poor performance for native application, not able to log into the google play. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Cédric T.

Cofounder, CTO and software developer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/5/2017

"Perfect Android emulator"

5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

Fastest Android emulator available, easy to use plugin in Android Studio and lots of choice for device configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Must use addons to install google play services which is required by many application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Iain S.

Mobile Developer Xamarin

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/28/2016

"Best android emulator available "

5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

Doesn't crash like the other emulators I have used, has big selection of devices and good features like gps mapping. They keep up todate with the latest version of Android usually a couple of days after a version release. Can emulator device features like camera, GPS, battery levels, Phone capabilities, network conditioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

Nothing it's a great product. The performance is great and the selection of devices is great too latest devices are always availability.

Occasionally crashes on my macbook when left for a long period of time e.g. 3-4 days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genymotion:

Update this product regularly as the updates are great too. Requires virtual box when installing so keep that updated too.

Try to only have a couple of emulators at the one time as they take up large amounts of hard drive space, I limit my self to 1-2 and just delete and re-add as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genymotion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Running a simulator to test android applications in a quick manner. Emulating device features with out having to buy all the android devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ian C.

Senior Software Engineer

Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/24/2016

"Easy to get started android emulator"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

I really love how quickly I can set up an android emulator and start testing my code. I can select from a myriad of devices to emulate, which mostly just changes a "skin" that wraps the phone and the resolution that the app(s) run in. Very quick to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Genymotion?

I can't stand how limited the free version is for development. I can't save any kind of settings (like a location on the GPS between different sessions of testing). I considered buying a license to get unrestricted, but the price of the license was too high to justify an annual subscription. I would have preferred to purchase the software outright over subscribing at such an astronomical price. Also, it turns out that the emulator runs android in x86 mode only as opposed to emulating a mobile process, which leads to phantom bugs that don't show in the emulator but do show on device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Genymotion:

It's quick and easy to get up and running since all you have to do is select which device you want to emulate, and initially it was faster to run apps in Genymotion because it ran Android in x86 mode as opposed to trying to emulate a mobile processor. However, the native android emulator provided with the android SDK has advanced leaps and bounds in the last year and a half and can perform emulated mobile processor at a much faster speed now, and is just as easy to get started with. There is no longer a need to use Genymotion, and it's far too expensive to get started with. They will only continue to increase their pricing because with the free (and better) Android SDK emulator being available for commercial use Genymotion will need to price gauge their existing customers to stay in business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genymotion solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm able to test android software quickly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pedro M.

Instructor de Francés

Translation and Localization

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/18/2016

"Easy to use Android Virtual Device Manager"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Genymotion?

It's easy to use. It's really amazing how quickly you can setup an android simulator and start testing any code. Genymotion offers a lot of speed and stability.

I'ts great that it works on Windows, Linux and Mac. Installation is super easy, however you must have Oracle's VirtualBox on your machine.

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What do you dislike about Genymotion?

First of all, I don't like the fact that you have to create an account to use the free version even if this version has so many limitations for development options.

It's not available for older versions of Windows (XP/VIsta) or any 32 bit Windows.

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Recommendations to others considering Genymotion:

If you need a great, speed and efficient tool for Android Developer.

It's also a very good tool for a Virtual Android.

Doesn't work for production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Genymotion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Testing and debugging.

There is no better and faster emulator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.