Genymotion

We recommend the Genymotion emulator over the Android Studio emulator. If you run into any problems using Genymotion, follow the steps in this guide.

Step 1: Use the same version of the Android tools everywhere

Genymotion and XDE/exp both bundle their own versions of the Android tools. In order for XDE or exp to communicate with Genymotion they need to share the same set of tools. You can do this by either telling XDE/exp to use Genymotion’s tools, or by installing Android Studio and telling both XDE/exp and Genymotion to use the tools from Android Studio.

Choose one of these two options:

Option 1: Use Genymotion’s tools

• Find Genymotion’s copy of adb. On macOS this is normally /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/.
• Add the Genymotion tools directory to your path.
• Make sure that you can run adb from your terminal.

Option 2: Use Android Studio’s tools

• Install Android Studio.

• Make sure that you can run adb from your terminal.

• Open Genymotion and navigate to Settings -> ADB. Select “Use custom Android SDK tools” and update with your Android SDK directory:

  

Step 2: Set your path in XDE

Run npm install -g exp to install exp globally.

Then run exp path. This will save your PATH environment variable so that XDE knows where to find your Android tools.