Emulating Android

The Android SDK comes with a pretty neat tool called the emulator, which allows you to emulate the Android devices. The emulator is shipped with some of the most popular handsets and lets you create an emulated handset of your own. Using this tool, you can flash new kernels, mess around with the platform and, of course, debug apps and test your Android malware and application exploits. Throughout the book we will use this tool quite a bit, so, it's important that you get to know the Android emulator.

The emulator is pretty straightforward to use. When you want to launch a device, all you need to do is open the Android Virtual Device (AVD) tool either from your SDK folder or straight from Eclipse. Then, you can either set up a ...

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