Android Gadget Streaming, powered by Firebase, is now in Beta

Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Senior Product Supervisor, Android Developer Instruments

Validating your app on a spread of Android screens is a vital step to creating a top quality Android app. Nevertheless, gaining access to the system you want, whenever you want it, might be difficult and time consuming. From making an attempt to breed a tool particular conduct on a Samsung system to testing your adaptive app layouts on the Google Pixel Fold, having the suitable system on the proper time is important.

To handle this app developer use case, we created Android Gadget Streaming, powered by Firebase. With just some clicks, you and your group can entry actual bodily gadgets, corresponding to the most recent Pixel and Samsung gadgets, and use them within the IDE in lots of the methods you’d use a bodily system sitting in your desk.

Android Gadget Streaming, powered by Firebase, out there in Android Studio Jellyfish

At this time, Android Gadget Streaming is in beta and is obtainable to all Android builders utilizing Android Studio Jellyfish or later. We’ve additionally added new gadgets to the catalog and launched versatile pricing that gives low-cost entry to the most recent Android gadgets.

Learn beneath to study what adjustments are on this launch, in addition to widespread questions round makes use of, safety, and pricing. Nevertheless, if you wish to get began straight away and take a look at Android Gadget Streaming for free of charge, see our getting began information.

What are you able to do with Android Gadget Streaming?

In case you’ve ever used Gadget Mirroring, you recognize that Android Studio permits you to see the display screen of your native bodily system inside the IDE window. With out having to bodily attain out to your system, you’re capable of change the system orientation, change the posture of foldables, simulate urgent bodily buttons, work together along with your app, and extra. Android Gadget Streaming leverages these similar capabilities, permitting you to attach and work together with distant bodily gadgets supplied by Firebase.

Utilizing the Debugger with Android Gadget Streaming

Once you use Android Studio to request a tool from Android Gadget Streaming, the IDE establishes a safe ADB over SSL connection to the system. The connection additionally permits you to use acquainted instruments in Android Studio that talk with the system, such because the Debugger, Profiler, Gadget Explorer, Logcat, Compose Reside Edit, and extra. These instruments allow you to extra precisely validate, take a look at, and debug the conduct of your app on actual OEM {hardware}.

What gadgets would my group have entry to?

Android Gadget Streaming provides you and your group entry to numerous gadgets working Android variations 8.1 via 14. You’ve got entry to the most recent flagship gadgets from prime system producers, corresponding to Google Pixel and Samsung. You may broaden testing your app throughout extra type elements with entry to the most recent foldables and tablets, such because the Samsung Tab S8 Extremely.

Browse and choose gadgets you need to use from Android Studio

And we’re incessantly including new gadgets to our current catalog of 20+ system fashions, corresponding to the next current additions:

• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5
• Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely
• Google Pixel 8a

With out having to buy costly gadgets, every group member can entry Firebase’s catalog of gadgets in just some clicks, for so long as they want—giving your group confidence that your app seems to be nice throughout quite a lot of widespread gadgets.

As we talked about at Google I/O ‘24, we’re partnering with prime Unique Tools Producers (OEMs), corresponding to Samsung, Google Pixel, Oppo, and Xiaomi, to broaden system choice and availability even additional within the months to come back. This helps the catalog of gadgets develop and keep forward of ecosystem developments, to be able to validate that your apps work nice on the most recent gadgets earlier than they attain the vast majority of your customers.

Is Android Gadget Streaming safe?

Android Gadget Streaming, powered by Firebase, takes the safety and privateness of your system periods very severely. Firebase gadgets are hosted in safe international information facilities and Android Studio makes use of an SSL connection to connect with the system.

A tool that you simply’ve used to put in and take a look at your app on isn’t shared with one other person or Google service earlier than being utterly erased and manufacturing unit reset. Once you’re accomplished utilizing a tool, you are able to do this your self by clicking “Return and Erase Gadget” to completely erase and manufacturing unit reset it. The identical applies if the session expires and the system is returned mechanically.

When your session ends, the system is absolutely erased and manufacturing unit reset.

How a lot does Android Gadget Streaming value?

Relying in your Firebase mission’s pricing plan, Android Gadget Streaming customers can use Android Gadget Streaming with the next pricing:

• On June 1, 2024, for a promotional interval:
• (no value) Spark plan: 120 no value minutes per mission, monthly
• Blaze plan: 120 no value minutes per mission, monthly, 15 cents for every extra minute
• On or round February, 2025, the promotional interval will finish and billing will likely be based mostly on the next quota limits:
• (no value) Spark plan: 30 no value minutes per mission, monthly
• Blaze plan: 30 no value minutes per mission, monthly, 15 cents for every extra minute

With no month-to-month or yearly contracts, Android Gadget Streaming’s per-minute billing gives unparalleled flexibility for you and your group. And importantly, you don’t pay for any time frame required to arrange the system earlier than you join, or erase the system after you finish your session. This enables you and your group to save lots of time and prices in comparison with buying and managing your personal system lab.

To study extra, see Utilization ranges, quotas, and pricing.

What’s subsequent

We’re actually excited for you and your group to attempt Android Gadget Streaming, powered by Firebase. We expect it’s a straightforward and cost-effective approach so that you can entry the gadgets you want, whenever you want them, and proper out of your IDE, to be able to guarantee the very best quality and performance of your app in your customers.

The very best half is, you may check out this new service in just some clicks and for free of charge. And our economical per-minute pricing gives elevated flexibility in your group to transcend the month-to-month quota, so that you simply solely pay for the time you’re actively linked to a tool—no subscriptions or long-term commitments required.

You may count on that the service will likely be including extra gadgets from prime OEM companions to the catalog, to make sure that system choice stays up-to-date and turns into more and more various. Attempt Android Gadget Streaming at present and share your expertise with the Android developer committee on LinkedIn, Medium, YouTube, or X.