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The emulator

A mobile session runs a real Android AVD embedded inside Trq, the way a device shows up in Android Studio's "Running Devices" — low latency, no separate window.

An Android emulator embedded in Trq, with the on-screen navigation bar

Boot or attach​

  • Boot starts one of your AVDs headlessly — the only display is Trq's canvas.
  • Attach connects to an emulator you already have running.

Either way the device appears in the center panel and you interact with it directly — tap, type, scroll — plus an on-screen Back / Home / Recent / Power bar.

Works across screen sizes​

Coordinate-based steps (a tap on an element with no stable locator, a swipe, a long-press) record the device resolution they were captured at. On replay, if the current device is a different size, Trq scales those coordinates to it — so a flow recorded on one screen still runs on another.

To set up the AVD in the first place, see Android setup.