Genymotion PaaS Legacy Releases

13.2

Improvements:

• Update OpenSSH server to 9.3 for Android images 9.0 to 13.0.
• Enable screenshot of protected applications.
• Descending notifications in User interface.
• Add an ADB serial field when ADB connection is enabled in UI.
• Reduce API response time.

Fixes:

• Fixed translation issues.

13.0

New:

• Android 5.1 and 6.0 have been deprecated and won't receive any updates in the future.
• Dynamic device rooting: Android 10.0 images can now be rooted or unrooted dynamically.
• The Instance information page has been improved with the following items:
  • Cloud provider
  • CPU architecture
  • Hypervisor
  • Rendering technology
• Support for rounded corners on Android 9.0 and higher.
• Root activation on Android 10.0.
• New "Device Content" page with a file browser and storage stastistics.
• Now Baseband widget: Configuration of network/sim operator (this was previously in the network widget).
• Emulated Bluetooth stack in Android 10.0 and higher.
• New HTTP APIs: Rounded corners, Storage, SSL certificates, SSH keys, Directories and Apk.

Improvements:

• Network widget: Enable/disable wifi and mobile data. Select mobile network type and signal strength.
• Camera widget: New icon to emphasize that it allows to capture both camera and microphone.
• More translations added.
• SSL certificates are now automatically renewed.
• Improved the Files API.
• Improved Mouse and SMS API examples.

12.0

New:

• New shell section to have a console directly accessible from the web UI.
• Added the SDK documentation to be able to share a device in a website.
• Added some userdata params to start an instance with parameters (i. e. dynamic resolution).
• New dark mode.
• Updated the UI framework to its last version.

Fixes:

• Fixed dnsmasq still listening to user keypress on Android 8.1 & 9.0.
• Fixed a bug where user was not able to use the configured TURN server.
• Fixed a bug on AWS ARM versions, where hypervisor & platforms were not correctly returned.

11.0.1

New:

• Bring Opengapps installation support in Android 11 using the Upload widget or Drag’n drop feature.

Improvements:

• Reduces boot time due to a wrongly configured component in Android 11.

Fixes:

• Fixed screen density and resolution configuration not being applied correctly.

11.0

New:

• Added Android 11.0.
• Added the ability to use microphone.
• Added “speed” field in GPS API.
• "Genymotion PaaS" has been renamed "Genymotion Device Image"

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing whatsapp compatibility.
• Fixed the camera crashing after several minutes.
• Fixed an issue with SSL certificate generation of long domain names.
• Fixed an issue with loading page not showing up in Android 10.
• Fixed an issue with wifi being disabled when external data disk is used with Android 7.0.
• Fixed troubleshooting tests.

10.0

New:

• Added a "letsencrypt" section in configuration to easily generate a valid SSL certificate directly from the user interface.
• Added the possibility to plug an external disk as a /data partition, to store users configuration independently from the machine.
• Added a SSH entry in the configuration to be able to easily add/remove allowed SSH keys.
• Added our first ARM-based version on AWS.

Improvements:

• Bumped TLS version from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2 and above.
• Bumped Webrtc libraries to version 85 to improve smoothness and fluidity of display.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing the camera to work properly.
• Fixed an issue with file upload progress circle displaying negative percentage.
• Fixed an issue preventing large files (>850MB) upload.
• Fixed some performance and security issues with Android 10.

9.0

New:

• Added Android 10.0.
• Added ro.product.model, ro.build.fingerprint and ro.build.description properties in the Configuration section.
• Added a Baseband HTTP API.
• Added the possibility to avoid regenerating SSH key file at boot using persist.god.keep_ssh_keys property.
• Added a websocket keepalive mechanism to avoid disconnections behind a HTTP middleware like Cloudflare/Apache2/Nginx.
• Added error messages in UI and logcat when a user did not succeed to install an application because of incompatibility.

Improvements:

• Updated the SSHd configuration for more security.

Fixes:

• Fixed HRS (HTTP Response Splitting) vulnerability.
• Fixed some bugs with the resize of disk at boot that was not updated in Android.
• Fixed Kiosk HTTP API on Android 9.0.
• Fixed mouse HTTP API on Android 6.0.
• Fixed frontend SDK javascript close() call error.
• Fixed keyboard on Android 5.1.
• Fixed SSL certificate generation with letsencrypt.
• Fixed a network issue on GCP with Android 8.0+.
• Fixed OpenGapps installation issue.
• Fixed documentation links.

8.0

New:

• Added Open GApps installation in the File Upload widget.
• Added autofocus to the camera.
• Added a logcat UI entry to see live application logs.
• Added options to configure animation, pointer location and virtual keyboard.
• Added a default TURN/STUN so that user can easily connect to their device.
• Added HTTP API and an option in the UI to reboot/power off from the toolbar.
• Added support of disk resize (enlarge) on all Android versions.

Improvements:

• Updated wallpaper for something with colors.

Fixes:

• Stabilized the baseband so it is always working.
• Fixed keyboard inputs broken after some key combinations.
• Android >= 8.0 are now using the network provided DNS and not 8.8.8.8.
• Fixed an issue that kept websockets alive forever.
• Pictures taken with Chrome inside the device are not blue-ish anymore.
• Fixed GPS position only sent once and baidu maps not working.
• SSL stacktraces are now displayed in a more compact way in logcat.
• The device is not vulnerable to SSL poodle anymore.

7.0

New:

• A new section to configure your instance easily has been added. It contains ADB, authentication, product properties, resolution, TURN/STUN, kiosk & product usage.
• Added HTTP APIs to emulate text messages & phone calls, get a screenshot of the device, the list of people connected, inject an image as camera and get the kiosk status.
• Added a clipboard widget to easily change android clipboard from your web browser.

Improvements:

• Improved the autoplay screen policy: the stream is starting muted, with a message alerting the user to click anywhere to re-enable sound.
• Increased the web widget file upload speed up to 16x.

Fixes:

• Fixed keyboard not working anymore after clicking out of some widgets.
• Fixed files not being opened correctly after upload if there is special characters in name or an uppercase in the extension.
• Fixed the gallery list not being refreshed after uploading a media file.
• Fixed an issue preventing the letsencrypt certificate generation to work on Android 9.0
• Fixed connection with SSH when there is no Public IP address.
• Fixed a stability issue, System broadcasts ACTION_POWER_DISCONNECTED randomly making Appium test failing.
• Fixed the virtual keyboard crashing when selecting ?123 on Android 8.0.
• Fixed the battery HTTP API returning "not charging" by default.
• Fixed TelephonyManager.getImei() returning null, and make it persistent after reboot.
• Fixed HTTP API shell “big” payloads causing timeout.
• Fixed the 3 loading dots appearing behind the video in some cases when resizing the browser window.
• Fixed the API reference not working anymore when changing default password.

6.0

New:

• A new UI to display the Virtual Machine, its metadata, and embed it inside your website. The old user interface is still accessible using the /iframe/ path.
• New HTTP APIs to control various android settings and configurations, such as the clipboard, android IDs & version, shell commands, gps, orientation, battery and various other input or settings.

Improvements:

• Web browsers compatibility has been extended to Safari 11, Chrome 34, Firefox 30, Internet Explorer 11, Edge 15 and Opera 22.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug which prevented recent version of Chrome to work.
• Fixed a GPS bug which prevented the location to be correctly updated on the device.
• Fixed a SSL bug which prevented recent version of Chrome to work on mac OS X.

5.0

New:

• Genymotion Cloud PaaS is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a per-second billing system.
• Graphics performance has been improved, thus multiplicating by up to 4 the performance compared to older versions.
• A new bootscreen has been added for a better user experience while waiting for the virtual device to boot.
• The Capture widget has been modified to add video recording (screencast).
• Nvidia GRID compatibility has been added (with OpenGL ES 3.1 support).

Improvements:

• Larger /system and /data partition size (10Go by default) to install Open GApps easily and more applications.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug allowing users to enter an incorrect Android ID value.
• Fixed an OpenGL bug preventing some applications to display on Android 7.0 (Nougat).
• The default dalvik heap size has been enlarged to minimum 512Mo to avoid having "Out of Memory" messages when spawning applications that require a lot of memory.

4.1

New:

• A new wallpaper for Android 10-year anniversary has been added.

Improvements:

• WebRTC has been updated from version 54 to version 63.
• For SSH connection, the username has been changed from "root" to "shell".
• The overall stability has been improved.

Fixes:

• Fixed adb screenrecord on Android 5.1 & Android 7.0.
• Fixed adb daemon enabled by default in Android 7.0.
• Fixed an issue when rotating the screen on Android 6.0 with Firefox.
• Fixed a huge latency occurring after several days of usage.

4.0

New:

• The Disk I/O widget has been added to emulate a low-end device with low disk bandwidth.
• The Screenshot widget has been added to take a screenshot of the virtual device directly from the web browser.

Improvements:

• The Network widget has been updated: a section dedicated to network quality has been added in order to test application behavior with poor connectivity.
• The interface of virtual devices has been fine-tuned to integrate new icons and a new design of the GPS widget. Also, widgets now automatically close when clicking outside the window.
• The communication protocol has been replaced with Redis, thus improving the overall performance of virtual devices.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented the web interface from working properly after a couple of hours.

3.0

New:

• Android 7.0 (Nougat) has been added.
• The Camera widget has been added to use the host webcam as a virtual Android camera.
• The Network widget (mobile network/SIM emulation) has been added to emulate several network/SIM operators and test application behavior on specific networks.
• A new SSL certificate feature to generate a certificate from Let’s encrypt servers directly in the instance.

Improvements:

• Mobile browsers are now supported. A useless message displayed on mobile browsers when accessing an instance has been removed.

Fixes:

• Drag and drop or reinstall an application (APK) twice is now possible.

2.0

New:

• Android 5.1 (Lolipop) has been added.
• Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) has been added.
• Virtual devices can now be configured to use only one standard network port (HTTPS).
• A new kiosk mode locks your application within your virtual device so that the user can only interact with your application and nothing else.
• An ADB multiplexer has been implemented and allows using ADB from multiple locations at the same time.
• Users can now add their own SSL certificate.
• The Genymotion Java API has been enabled.
• A new option to enable or disable the toolbar has been added.
• A proper root support has been added.

Improvements:

• Overall performance has been improved.

Fixes:

• Some SSH access issues for Windows and Mac have been fixed.
• The authentication issue during file upload has been fixed.
• The keyboard issue generating a double text input after connection/reconnection has been fixed.
• Recent app and Home buttons have been fixed.
• The right Google Maps API key is now used, ensuring proper access to Google Maps.
• Fixed text inputs in applications forwarded to vconsole.

1.0

New:

• First release with Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
• SSH access using your AWS key pair.
• Emulator can be displayed in a set of compatible web browsers: chrome, opera.
• Multitouch.
• Basic authentication to access the web interface (by default login: genymotion / password: ).
• Basic authentication can be modified or disabled with command line.
• Widgets available from the toolbar:
  • Rotation
  • GPS: to change/emulate the location of your device
  • SMS & call emulation: set up sms / call interruption
  • Android ID: you can change your virtual device’s Android ID/IMEI/MEID on the fly
  • Battery: emulate various charge levels
  • File upload
  • Resolution: Change the device resolution
• APK installation from file upload widget, drag & drop or adb.
• OpenGApps installation from file upload, drag & drop or adb.
• ADB can be enabled / disabled (disabled by default) and tunneled with ssh.

Known issues:

• Camera is not supported yet