Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was announced back in June at Google I/O and brought along many great improvements like Project Butter. Follow the tutorial below to check out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean’s new features by installing the emulator on your PC.
The full guide is below:
Step 1. Download the Android SDK installer from here.
Step 2. Install the SDK, it should be pretty straight forward.
Step 3. Now browse to the location where the SDK is installed and click on SDK Manager. The application will attempt to fetch files from Google’s servers, let the process complete before continuing further.
Step 4. Now choose only the files in Android 4.1 (API 16) folder and Android SDK Platform-tools.
Step 5. Now click on Install Package on the bottom right hand corner.
Step 6. Click on Install to start the installation process.
Step 7. After that’s done go back to where you installed the Android SDK and open AVD Manager.
Step 8. Click on New and add a virtual device with the following settings:
Name: JellyBean
Target: Select Android 4.1 from the drop down menu.
Skin: Default
Hardware: Abstracted LCD Density at 240, Max VM Application at 48 and Device RAM Size at 512.
Step 9. Click on create AVD.
Step 10. Click OK.
Step 11. Click the AVD you just created, it should be at the top.
Step 12. Click the Launch button.
The emulator will now boot into Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the start up should take around 5 minutes.
Feel free to ask us any questions you may have in the comments below.