Emulate Samsung Galaxy Tab

You can't.

"The Samsung Emulator has the same functionality as the Generic Android Emulator, but varies with the size and appearance of the device."

The problem with Samsung is that they don't use a generic android image, they have custom apps and they react in custom ways and do weird things you wouldn't expect and when you're trying to fix bugs that's what you want. You cannot get that. You need access to a physical device to get the right ecosystem to hunt down the bugs and map out which intents work and how they work on that device. And sometimes there are errors that only occur on Samsung devices because some of the core rendering code is different as well. I've had errors where all Android devices except Samsung would work flawlessly but the scheme itself could not work on Samsung and had to be scrapped. The only thing Samsung allows is skinning and that won't properly note the changes in the rendering pipeline or how the samsung ecosystem deals with intents.

You can make the device look similar, that's worthless. I don't care what it looks like, I care whether this bug still affects that particular model or whether the tweak to the intents I made rectified the issue and I can't learn that from a pretty picture as the border to the same device.


UPDATED:
Matt provided a great link on how to add emulators for all Samsung devices.

OLD:
To get the official Samsung Galaxy Tab emulator do the following:

  1. Open the Android SDK and AVD Manager
  2. Click on Available packages
  3. Expand the Third party Add-ons. There you will see Samsung Electronics add-ons.
  4. Once the add-on is installed create a new emulator. Under Target you will see the new Samsung Tab settings, select that.

That's it!


I found under website.

http://developer.samsung.com/android/tools-sdks/Samsung-GALAXY-Tab-Emulator

Extract zip file to add-ons under android sdk path. then launch Android SDK Manager. under "extras" folder check "Android + Google APIs for GALAXY Tab, API 8, revision 1" item and install package.

That's all.


What resolution and density should I set?

  • 1024x600

How can I indicate that this is large screen device?

  • you can't really (not that i know of)

What hardware does this tablet support?

  • http://www.samsungmobile.co.uk/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-tab-specification

What is max heap size?

  • not sure

Which Android version?

  • 2.2

Hope that helps - check the spec page for all unanswered questions.

Tags:

Android

Android Emulator

Tablet

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