Android Emulator - Upgrading to AVD Manager 20.0.3

I upgraded to Android Emulator  AVD Manager 20.0.3, and keyboard entry did not work, just the virtual keyboard.  To fix this

1. Go to AVD Mananger.
2. Select the particular AVD and click on Edit
3. Go to the Hardware section, click on New.
4. Select the Property Name : Keyboard Support
5. By default, it is added with a value of 'no'. Just click on the value column and change it to 'yes'.
6. Click on Edit AVD again.

This will add a property hw.keyboard=yes in config.ini file for the AVD.

Smart Phone Emulators

All the online, browser based emulators that I looked at, never rendered web pages like a real mobile phone.  So best choice was so set up a stand alone emulator:

Android

Android Virtual Device - Easy to install, can select different versions, and set initial RAM.  Saves bookmarks between sessions, can use keyboard to enter text

Windows Phone 7

Be careful of requirements for graphics card.   Does not save info between sessions, cant use keyboard, must use virtual keyboard.

Apple

Have not tested yet, need to run this on Apple machine.

List of Emulators


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Michael Johnson (Shawnee Univ) suggested these online emulators:

http://iphonetester.com/

Safari as an emulator:  http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-emulate-iphone-change-user-agent-in-safari-and-firefox-web-browser/

I tried both, and neither produced output like a regular iPhone. They may convince a webserver that they are  an iPhone, but then they don’t render the HTML/CSS as an iPhone does.
For example, they ignore this tag
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=1.5" /> 

Below:
LEFT: Safari with user Agent set to iPhone.  
Right:  Android emulator (matches what I see on iPhone)