Running apps on Genymotion over local network

Question

I have two machines running on the same network. I use one machine for development and the other has various android emulators.

I need to run apps on the emulator running on the other pc from the development pc. Something like the run command in Android studio should make the app install in Genymotion running on the other pc.

Possible? Any ideas ?

Answer 1

This is possible. You first need to expose your Genymotion devices to the local network. For this, create all the device you want to run on the dedicated computer. Then open VirtualBox locally and for each device do this:

1. Open the Settings > Network tab
2. Open the "Adapter 2"
3. Change the "Attached to" option to "Bridged Adapter" (by default it is set to NAT)
4. Click OK

Then you need to get the local IP of the device. You can get it by running this command:

adb shell "ifconfig | awk '/inet addr/{print substr(\$2,6)}' | awk 'NR==2'"

When all these things are done, come back to your development PC. Open a terminal and type for each of your remote Genymotion devices:

adb connect <DEVICE_IP>

This way, you will connect your local adb deamon to the remote devices.

You are now able to control your remote Genymotion devices as if they were local. You can run adb install to install APKs remotely.