Ilya is a software engineer at Uber working on developer experience.
Ilya Arkhanhelski
Uber, Senior Software Engineer
You don’t have to run it locally! How to run your emulators in the cloud.
Probably every Android engineer has tried running Android Emulator on their laptops. Many companies have experience running Android Emulators in CI pipelines for testing. But what does it take to run a highly interactive emulator in the cloud? Why would one need to run an emulator in the cloud?
At Uber we know how to build Cloud Development Environments. And now we expanded into Android Emulator space. Providing our engineers with zero setup emulators.
We'll walk you through all the moving parts of the emulator setup in a dev environment that sparks joy. Share the challenges we had and opportunities we discovered.