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quarks

Reputation: 35276

USB Host debugging with Android emulator

I need to test my custom USB peripheral but I'm lacking the right phone that support USB Host, will the Android emulator be enough for me to test my USB peripheral hardware for this matter?

UPDATE:

I realized that Android-x86 (with VirtualBox or Vmware player) can be used for this purpose, however not still sure to what extent.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3033

Answers (2)

Skanda
Skanda

Reputation: 882

This tutorial shows how to communicate with Arduino from Nexus.

About an year back, I was able to communicate with custom board through USB Host of Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250.

I am not sure whether it is supported in simulator.

Upvotes: 0

TronicZomB
TronicZomB

Reputation: 8747

The emulator does not support USB connections from my experience.

Check this out for more info.

Edit: From my research one of the cheapest, quality Android tablets that has full USB Host mode support was the Samsung Galaxy 2 (7.0"). Now the Nexus 7 does have some host mode support but it cannot support memory devices, such as flash drives. I beleive this is due to software limitations set by Google/Asus, since they also did not provide a microSD on the Nexus 7.

Upvotes: 2

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