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"How can I detect the Android emulator?" is a question a lot of people have asked.
The authoritative way is as below. On the Android emulator, there exists the property ro.kernel.qemu. On an actual Android device, this property doesn't exist.
public static boolean isRunningOnEmulator() { String emulatorProperty = SystemProperties.get("ro.kernel.qemu"); boolean Result = (emulatorProperty!=null) && (emulatorProperty.equals("1")); return Result; }
SystemProperties is a helper class I've created that uses Reflection to call into the public android.os.SystemProperties which is not exposed in the Android SDK.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.