How can I configure the Android emulator to simulate the Galaxy Nexus?

Question

What settings for the Android emulator will as closely simulate the characteristics of the Galaxy Nexus as possible?

Answer 1

Here's a try:

• Target: Google APIs - API Level 15
• Skin: Built-in WXGA720

Selecting skin sets the following hardware parameters, leave them as-is:

• Hardware Back/Home: no
• Abstracted LCD density: 320
• Keyboard lid support: no
• Max VM application heap size: 48
• Device ram size: 1024

Galaxy Nexus has no SD card, just internal memory. Distinction between internal and external storage is important and can affect apps. To simulate this:

• add SD Card support=no parameter;
• launch emulator with -partition-size 1024 for 1GB internal memory, or use some other means to increase amount of internal memory available;

If you're working on camera apps, you'll also want to set correct number of cameras, and correct resolution.