Go to Corellium
All Collections
Getting Started
Introduction to Virtual Devices
Quickstart for Android

Quickstart for Android

This article demonstrates how to create an android device along with some basic functionalities of the device's interface.
J
Written by Jasmine Singleton
Updated over a week ago

Table of Contents

Introduction

Corellium's generic Android (AOSP) device is based on Ranchu, a virtual Android system-on-chip. It is compiled from the android-goldfish-3.18 branch with the corellium_defconfig configuration.

Corellium currently supports Android versions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

The Corellium Android device is rooted, and SELinux enforcement is permissive. You can check the console or logcat for auditd diagnostics to see if SELinux will affect your testing.

Creating your Device:

  1. Log in to Corellium.

  2. When you reach the Corellium Devices page, click CREATE DEVICE.

  3. Select the device you would like to create, then click SELECT. We will use a Generic Android.

  4. Select the version of the Android OS then click SELECT. We will use version 12.0.0.

  5. Confirm your selections, then click CREATE DEVICE. We will not use advanced boot options for this example. You do not need to name the device.

  6. Please be patient while your virtualized Android environment initializes. This process may take several minutes, depending on the device complexity.

  7. You will see a “Device is ready!” confirmation.

  8. The device will boot up to the home screen, and you're all set!

Supported Hardware Devices, Peripherals, & Extensions

The following virtual hardware devices are currently supported for Corellium's virtual Android devices:

  • ARM PL011 serial

  • ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2

  • Goldfish audio

  • Goldfish battery

  • Goldfish events (supporting the Android back, home, and overview buttons, touch screen, and keyboard)

  • Goldfish GSM modem

  • Goldfish real-time clock

  • graphics card

  • VIRTIO hard disk drive

  • VIRTIO network interface card

The following Android peripherals are not currently supported:

  • Bluetooth

  • TrustZone features, including Keymaster, PlayReady, and WideVine

Corellium's virtual Android devices support OpenGLES 3.0. The following EGL extensions are not supported:

  • EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache

  • EGL_ANDROID_framebuffer_target

  • EGL_ANDROID_image_crop

  • EGL_ANDROID_image_native_buffer

  • EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync

  • EGL_ANDROID_recordable

  • EGL_EXT_buffer_age

  • EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness

  • EGL_EXT_pixel_format_float

  • EGL_KHR_no_config_context

  • EGL_KHR_partial_update

  • EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context

The following OpenGLES 2 extensions are supported:

  • GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture

  • GL_OES_depth24

  • GL_OES_depth32

  • GL_OES_depth_texture

  • GL_OES_depth_texture_cube_map

  • GL_OES_EGL_image

  • GL_OES_EGL_image_external

  • GL_OES_EGL_sync

  • GL_OES_element_index_uint

  • GL_OES_framebuffer_object

  • GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil

  • GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8

  • GL_OES_standard_derivatives

  • GL_OES_texture_float

  • GL_OES_texture_float_linear

  • GL_OES_texture_half_float

  • GL_OES_texture_half_float_linear

  • GL_OES_texture_npot

  • GL_OES_texture_3D

  • GL_EXT_blend_minmax

  • GL_EXT_color_buffer_half_float

  • GL_EXT_draw_buffers

  • GL_EXT_instanced_arrays

  • GL_EXT_occlusion_query_boolean

  • GL_EXT_read_format_bgra

  • GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic

  • GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888

  • GL_EXT_texture_rg

  • GL_ANGLE_framebuffer_blit

  • GL_ANGLE_framebuffer_multisample

  • GL_ANGLE_instanced_arrays)

  • GL_CHROMIUM_texture_filtering_hint

  • GL_NV_fence

  • GL_NV_framebuffer_blit

  • GL_NV_read_depth

The following OpenGLES 3 extensions are supported:

  • GL_APPLE_texture_max_level

  • GL_EXT_clip_cull_distance

  • GL_EXT_color_buffer_float

  • GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer

  • GL_EXT_frag_depth

  • GL_EXT_gpu_shader5

  • GL_EXT_read_format_bgra

  • GL_EXT_render_snorm

  • GL_EXT_robustness

  • GL_EXT_shader_implicit_conversions

  • GL_EXT_shader_integer_mix

  • GL_EXT_shader_io_blocks

  • GL_EXT_sRGB_write_control

  • GL_EXT_texture_compression_bptc

  • GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1

  • GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc

  • GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc

  • GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc_srgb

  • GL_EXT_texture_cube_map_array

  • GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic

  • GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888

  • GL_EXT_texture_norm16

  • GL_EXT_texture_rg

  • GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode

  • GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_R8

  • GL_EXT_texture_type_2_10_10_10_REV

  • GL_EXT_unpack_subimage

  • GL_KHR_context_flush_control

  • GL_KHR_no_error

  • GL_KHR_texture_compression_astc_ldr

  • GL_KHR_texture_compression_astc_sliced_3d

  • GL_MESA_shader_integer_functions

  • GL_NV_fbo_color_attachments

  • GL_NV_image_formats

  • GL_NV_read_depth

  • GL_NV_read_depth_stencil

  • GL_NV_read_stencil

  • GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture

  • GL_OES_depth24

  • GL_OES_depth_texture

  • GL_OES_depth_texture_cube_map

  • GL_OES_EGL_image

  • GL_OES_EGL_image_external

  • GL_OES_EGL_image_external_essl3

  • GL_OES_EGL_sync

  • GL_OES_element_index_uint

  • GL_OES_fbo_render_mipmap

  • GL_OES_gpu_shader5

  • GL_OES_mapbuffer

  • GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil

  • GL_OES_required_internalformat

  • GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8

  • GL_OES_sample_variables\

  • GL_OES_shader_image_atomic

  • GL_OES_shader_io_blocks

  • GL_OES_shader_multisample_interpolation

  • GL_OES_standard_derivatives

  • GL_OES_stencil8

  • GL_OES_texture_3D

  • GL_OES_texture_cube_map_array

  • GL_OES_texture_float

  • GL_OES_texture_float_linear

  • GL_OES_texture_half_float

  • GL_OES_texture_half_float_linear

  • GL_OES_texture_npot

  • GL_OES_texture_stencil8

  • GL_OES_vertex_array_object

  • GL_OES_vertex_half_float

Next Steps

Now that you know how to set up your first android device, check out our Connect to the Corellium VPN article.

Did this answer your question?