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Install Google Play / Chrome browser in genymotion mode

I wanted to use Chrome for the Android emulator, so I installed GenyMotion.

I installed the latest version 2.0.3 and downloaded the "Nexus 7 - 4.2.2" ROM.

I followed the following links. How do you install Google frameworks (Play, Accounts, etc.) on a Genymotion virtual device?

But neither drag n drop works, nor can I install Google Appz from the emulator. http://blog.zeezonline.com/2013/11/install-google-play-on-genymotion-2-0/

After downloading "gapps-jb-20130812-signed.zip" and when I select the file in the emulator, it comes with "There is no application registered to process the selected file type"

When I try to drag a file from my computer to Linux-ROM with Linux OS, it just doesn't work. The file is not discarded. I also referred to the following Genymotion 2.0 link "drag and drop"

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This is what worked for me:

  • install libhoudini mentioned in this guide: [GUIDE] Genymotion | Installing ARM Translation and GApps [Updated November16] I also experienced the DnD problem, read below how I worked on it I did not set the GAPP zip code. It is not needed and causes a lot of failure notifications.
  • Retrieve the updated Chrome APK from my real Android device. The APK for installed applications can be found in / data / app (but it requires root), or you can use a backup solution to extract it.
  • Install the resulting APK, also adding DnD to the main screen, it will be automatically installed. ... and it worked.

As for the problem with DnD, in my case the reason was that I ran Genymotion “as an administrator” (why? Difficult: because I have an unconnected virtualBox machine that uses its own disk image, for which I need to run the virtual box in privileged mode that will cause Genymotion to crash if it also does not work in privileged mode). However, when I started GenyMotion not as an administrator, the dnd problem did not appear. If this is not a problem in your case, I think you can still get the material without DnD support:

  • First, create files on your image in some way, use your imagination (or any web service to share files).
  • Also get an APK for a decent file explorer with ZIP and root support. I use ES file explorer and my instructions will be based on it. I suggest, like Chrome itself, first install it on your actual phone, and then grab the APK.
  • Install the file explorer, run it and become root (ES crashed for the first time in my case, but after some attempts it worked)
  • make sure that / the system is mounted as r / w. in ES, use menu-> root explorer-> mount R / W, put / system on RW
  • Locate Genymotion-ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip, browse it, select (long press) the "system" folder, extract, "select a path", specify /. Zip will now be "installed"
  • Go back to the root browser settings, go back / go back to RO
  • Restart the emulator (in my case, it crashed both at the end of the work and at the first boot, I just closed the emulator in a few minutes and tried again, then it worked)
  • You can now install the Chrome APK
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