How can I detect when an Android application is running in the emulator?

Question

I would like to have my code run slightly differently when running on the emulator than when running on a device. (For example, using 10.0.2.2 instead of a

Answer 1

Another option would be to look at the ro.hardware property and see if its set to goldfish. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this from Java but its trivial from C using property_get().