Friday, October 4, 2019

Emulator 29.2.3 Canary

Emulator 29.2.3 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels. Changes:

  • Windows MSVC build: Fixed incorrect optimization flags.
  • Google Maps UI: Fixed issues around GPX/KML route playback.
  • Keycode forwarding: We now maintain a mapping of host keyboard type to Android keyboard type, and only forward host keycodes when both the host and Android keyboard type can be determined and correctly mapped (An upcoming suitable system image is still required).
  • Vulkan: Removed support for 1D compressed textures (this is not a use case that is commonly considered).
  • Added new hardware property, hw.lcd.vsync (default 60), which, given an upcoming suitable system image build, will allow the guest's VSYNC rate to be controlled by the AVD configuration. This can be useful for testing apps on high frame rate (HFR) displays.
  • Windows AMD CPUs: Added VMM-side support for running on AMD CPUs on Windows without requiring Hyper-V/WHPX. This requires an upcoming hypervisor driver.