Genymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator.
It runs as a virtual machine on your computer, so you get much better
performance, and it's much more like using
a real device instead of the Android Emulator.
First Virtualbox needs to be installed . Registration is also required in order to download and install Genymotion :
Once the download is complete change the directory to where the bin file is located and run the following commands (in this case Downloads folder) :
cd Downloads
chmod +x genymotion-2.5.2_x64.bin
./genymotion-2.5.2_x64.bin
Change directory to where Genymotion was installed.
cd genymotion
./genymotion
Once Genymotion starts we can click Add and select Yes to add a virtual device:
Select desired device and click Next
Enter a name for your device and click Next
Wait until your virtual device is downloaded and deployed
Click Finish and Play to start the emulator