Android Studio sucks!!! Genymotion is amazing!!

Is Genymotion an IDE for Android?

@netikras not IDE, just Emulator. I needed it because the official Android Studio Emulator kept freezing/crashing my laptop

@Anakata So it's AVD that sucks, not AndroidStudio then?

Or is it Google's official android emulator that sucks?

Is Genymotion a reimplementation of google's android emulator, or just a VirtualBox-based wrapper for it, providing a different UX?

Trying to get my head around

@netikras lol I don’t know that much, but I’ve heard that even the Android Studio IDE is pretty heavy as it causes the PC/laptop to freeze often so I thought that must the the root cause

But do I need Android studio installed to use genymotion?

@C0D4 yes you do as you have to set the Android SDKs path to connect your react native app to the emulator (assuming that’s what you’re trying to do)

As far as I remember, the android emulator uses qemu to emulate Arm, or x86 hyperv, while genymotion uses x86 virtualbox, and is limited to x86.
Depending on your setup - you can optimize the emulator setup to use the haxm runtime.

It will never be as good a an actual device, and you can buy a used/refurb one for 50$ or so....

Comparing an IDE with an emulator, I see, I see. Carry on.