Posted by Grant Yang (Product Supervisor for OmniLab) & Adarsh Fernando (Product Supervisor for Android Studio)
At Google I/O 2024, we introduced Android Gadget Streaming in open beta, which permits you as a developer to extra simply entry and interactively take a look at your app on actual bodily gadgets situated in Google information facilities and streamed on to Android Studio. This allows groups in any location to entry quite a lot of gadgets throughout prime Android machine producers, together with the most recent household of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy collection gadgets.
We’re considerably increasing on the range of gadgets accessible on this service by working carefully with Android machine producers (also referred to as authentic tools producers, or OEMs)—reminiscent of Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo—to attach their machine labs to Android Gadget Streaming, so you possibly can entry much more bodily gadgets immediately in your workflow in Android Studio. This integration is obtainable with the identical efficiency, stability, and safety advantages you get with gadgets offered by Google. Preserve studying for extra particulars under, in addition to how one can join the early entry and reap the benefits of these new gadgets.
Signup for Early Entry to OEM Lab Gadgets
For those who haven’t already completed so, comply with the steps to rise up and working with the beta launch of Android Gadget Streaming, which will provide you with entry to all of the Google-hosted gadgets to check with immediately from Android Studio. Later this yr, we are going to begin an Early Entry Program that enables individuals to make use of Android Gadget Streaming to hook up with gadgets hosted by our OEM companions. This expands the catalog of take a look at gadgets accessible to you with Android Gadget Streaming.
To kick off this program, we’re first partnering with Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo. These labs shall be located in varied places all over the world, and it is possible for you to to make use of the Firebase challenge you’re already utilizing with Android Gadget Streaming in Android Studio to entry them. Your Firebase challenge’s administrator could have management to allow or disable particular person OEM labs.
For those who’d wish to take part within the EAP for accessing OEM machine labs, fill out this kind, and we are going to let you already know for those who and your workforce have been accepted. Through the EAP, OEM-provided gadgets is not going to be billed or counted towards your promotional month-to-month quota.
We stay up for sharing extra particulars throughout Google’s I/O Join Beijing in early August 2024.
Within the meantime, we encourage you to check out the gadgets presently accessible in Android Gadget Streaming. Presently, the Android Gadget Streaming program is in a promotional interval, with the next quantity of month-to-month minutes provided for free of charge, which is able to final till roughly February 2025.
OEM Labs powered by OmniLab
A few of it’s possible you’ll marvel how these gadgets are being linked by means of to Android Studio. Underneath the hood, Android Gadget Streaming is constructed on prime of the machine platform for Google, OmniLab. OmniLab, the identical machine platform that powers all inner machine labs, can be powering the OEM labs. Omnilab did this by open sourcing their Android Check Station (ATS) framework accessible to its open supply.
OmniLab offers a framework to make sure that your Android Gadget Streaming session is safe and performant. You’re capable of deploy, debug, and work together together with your app on these distant gadgets by means of a direct ADB over SSL connection, all with out having to depart the IDE. And when the session ends, the machine information is absolutely wiped and manufacturing unit reset earlier than it’s made accessible to a different developer.
In abstract, for those who’d wish to take part within the EAP for accessing OEM machine labs, fill out this kind, and we are going to let you already know for those who and your workforce have been accepted. Through the EAP, OEM-provided gadgets is not going to be billed or counted towards your promotional month-to-month quota.
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