Android is known to run on a variety of devices with different hardware and software specifications. At the time of writing this book, 1 billion activation marks have been crossed. The number of devices running Android is staggering, providing users with a rich variety of options in different form factors and on different hardware bases. This adds a roadblock when it comes to testing your application on different devices, because it is humanly impossible to get hold of them all, not to forget the time and capital needed to be invested in it. Emulator in itself is a great tool; it enables us to circumvent this problem by giving us the flexibility to mimic different hardware features, such as CPU architecture, RAM, and camera, and different software versions ranging from early Cupcake to KitKat. We will also try to leverage this to our advantage in our project and try to run our application on the emulator. An added benefit of using the emulator is that we will be running a...