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hey guys it's bran the minimun from pocketnow.com in this video we're gonna show you how to run the Android 4.0 emulator so that you can try out Ice Cream Sandwich on your own and see how you like it let's get to it alright so step one go to developer.android.com slash SDK I'll put all these steps in the description so you can follow along and then you will come to a page that looks like this basically and then you want to click on the left go to Android 4.0 platform and then the next step would be to click where it says download the SDK starter package it'll come through as a zip folder you're gonna want to extract the zip folder - I don't know a place on your desktop or something like that and you will get something that looks kind of like this what we want to focus on here is the SDK manager so double click on that click run and all that good stuff you'll get a screen that looks like this and what you're going to want to do next is put a little check in the box where it says Android 4.0 you'll have a button down here mine is grayed out because I've already done this that says install packages you click that it will download it'll take about two five minutes depending on your connection speed then you've got the the Android 4.0 ready to go in terms of the emulator so close that after you've downloaded 4.0 and then go into AVD manager in the original files that you unzipped presumably to your desktop click run and this is where you create the emulator and I've already created an emulator I'll walk you through the process of creating a new one so we want to click new we're going to name it let's just call it emulator - you want to change the target to Android 4.0 and then there's not that many other options that you want to change and by the way it can't be emulator - it's telling me contains invalid cow characters so I'm gonna put a Z on the end just be fun down here you want to change the resolution the lower you go the better performing the emulator will be I'm sticking with WVGA but if you want to go higher to the full 720p and you've got the processing power to do it then go ahead Ram size I like to change to 1024 I don't even know if that does anything but it sounds cool then you click create a VD and then it takes about five minutes for the Android emulator to actually load its very CPU intensive let me show you what it looks like after you actually load the emulator so I'm gonna pull up that's not it here it is here is the Android emulator and what we have here are some controls on the right that you can use so you can use the built-in keyboard you can use the keyboard on your device and then we've got the Android buttons here and in 4.0 to bring up the multitask launcher you tap and hold on the home button since you don't get the special virtual keys and everything else is pretty much the same you got the back button the Menu button you've got a d-pad if you want to move around from home screen to home screen if the swipes aren't working and you use your mouse to interact with it so that's how you run Ice Cream Sandwich in the emulator hope you enjoy that's it for now