Google maps SDK with new Intel Atom x86 emulator

Question

Is there any way, how to get new x86 image for Android emulator working with Google Maps SDK?

Answer 1

First, make sure you follow the instructions to enable virtualization support for the emulator. If you don't, everything will work fine except you won't see a performance improvement:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#vm-windows

Then follow these instructions to create an Android 2.3.3 AVD with Google Maps support, with corrections and thanks to http://38911bytes.blogspot.de/2012/03/how-to-use-google-maps-api-in-android.html:

1. In Android Virtual Device Manager create an AVD with target "Google APIs (Google Inc.) - API Level 10"
2. emulator -avd name_of_avd
3. adb pull /system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
4. adb pull /system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
5. (optional) Remove the AVD you just created in the Android Virtual Device Manager
6. In Android Virtual Device Manager create an AVD with target "Intel Atom x86 system Image (Intel Corporation) - API Level 10"
7. emulator -partition-size 1024 -no-snapshot-save -avd name_of_avd
8. adb remount rw
9. adb push com.google.android.maps.xml /system/etc/permissions
10. adb push com.google.android.maps.jar /system/framework
11. Download mkfs.yaffs2.x86
12. adb push mkfs.yaffs2.x86 /data
13. adb shell
14. cd /data
15. chmod 777 mkfs.yaffs2.x86
16. ./mkfs.yaffs2.x86 /system system.img
17. exit
18. adb pull /data/system.img (...be patient)
19. Copy system.img into the avd directory for the avd you just created (likely in ~/.android/avd/name_of_avd.avd/)
20. Reboot emulator

You're done! You can use essentially the same instructions using the new ICS (4.0.3) image if you want to use Google Maps on ICS.