Accessing Files from Genymotion Sd Card

Accessing files from genymotion sd card

You can use shared folder for that. It is well explain on this Google+ post.

Here is the brief:

• Go to your VirtualBox VM setting / Shared folder tab
• Add a shared folder with the folder you want to shared, and check the "auto mount" option
• Start your VM as usual from the Genymotion software
• Your shared folder is available in the /mnt/shared directory (multiple shared folders are supported)

Don't know how to Copy files to SD card in Genymotion Android Emulator

I believe you can simply drag and drop the files onto the running emulator. I hope this helps.

Add folder/files in Genymotion emulator

I solve my problem

First follow this Answer

• Go to your VirtualBox VM setting / Shared folder tab
• Add a shared folder with the folder you want to shared, and check the
  "auto mount" option
• Start your VM as usual from the Genymotion software
• Your shared folder is available in the /mnt/shared directory
  (multiple shared folders are supported)

After that
Change Settings of file Manager in Genymotion emulator change that to root user so all my folder visible also with Shared folders

• In Genymotion virtual device, run the application "File Manager" and
  READ the advertisement about "low-privileged mode".
• Go to "settings" menu from "File Manager"
• In "general settings", click on "access mode" and activate "Root
  access" mode
• Restart File Manager => all directories will be presented

Thanks

Update
In newer version of genymotion you can add files/folder by drag and drop.
It take some time while adding files in emulator. time depends on file size.

Update 2 (Based on @GandhyOnly comment)

To make visible in gallery just drag and drop your images files on emulator they stored in download folder after finish transferring files restart same emulator and images will shown in gallery. Or if you don't want to restart emulator then use following command

adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED -d file:///sdcard/

it will rescan images and show them in gallery. For more detail about command see the actual answer here. I didn't check command I use first method just restart emulator

How to access file /data/data from android emulator from Genymotion?

As of now the only way to access data/data folder on the GenyMotion emulator is by using adb shell commands.
Since the emulator is running inside Oracle VirtualBox, direct access to the storage is a security issue and therefore you wont be able to find it through explorer or eclipse.
The VM saves the storage in .vmdk file format. Which is a virtual machine disk format. The data/data folder is somewhere deep inside that file.

Click here!
To learn more about .vmdk file format.

How to add an SD card to genymotion?

There's already some emulation of SD card (external) storage in Genymotion that might work for you, depending on what you're trying to do. Although Settings->Storage doesn't show it separately as External Storage like you might expect, Genymotion does emulate external storage. The size of files stored there will be reflected in the totals shown under Internal Storage by Settings-Storage.

Running in Genymotion, an app using Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() or .getAbsolutePath() will get back /storage/emulated/<userId>, where userId=0 if the app is running as Owner, and 10, 11, 12, etc. if the app is running as another user or restricted/managed profile. The Android framework actually maps this for you to /mnt/shell/emulated/<userId>, which is why you won't find /storage/emulated/<userId> if you use a shell to poke around.

The paths /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard are symlinks to /storage/emulated/legacy, which is basically the Owner's storage. Don't use these in your apps, since they might not exist everywhere and/or your app might not have access to them if not running as Owner. They are just there to support legacy hardcoded apps.

Not being sure what you're trying to do, it's probably also worth mentioning that Genymotion now supports VirtualBox shared folders which will appear under /mnt/shared inside your VM. Check their Google+ post for instructions.

Genymotion doesn't recognize images on sdcard

The problem is that the gallery needs to rescan the folders to index the pictures on the storage. adb push does not call the gallery to rescan.

You can launch this broadcast to make the gallery reload its content after you copied your picture:

adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED -d file:///sdcard/

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