Creating a tablet emulator

We will often want to test our apps on multiple different devices. Fortunately, Android Studio makes it easy to create as many different emulators as we like. Follow these next steps to make a tablet emulator.

Select Tools | AVD Manager and then click the Create Virtual Device… button on the Your Virtual Devices window. You will see the Select Hardware window pictured next:

Figure 5.14 – The Select Hardware window

Select the Tablet option from the Category list, and then highlight the Pixel C tablet from the choice of available tablets.

Tip

If you are reading this sometime in the future, the Pixel C option might have been updated. The choice of tablet is less important than practicing this process of creating a tablet emulator and then testing our apps.

Click the Next button. On the System Image window that follows, just click Next because this will select the default system image. It is possible that choosing...