Android emulator hardware
Unlike real hardware, most Android emulator hardware interfaces are emulated using QEMU, which is a popular open source emulator engine used by many open source projects. The Android development team customized QEMU and added a virtual hardware platform called goldfish. As we mentioned in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Development Environment, there are currently two versions of Android emulator available in the latest SDK. The code name for the original Android emulator is goldfish and the new one is ranchu. However, the virtual hardware code base for device emulation in QEMU is the same for both versions.
Detailed information about goldfish hardware interfaces can be found in the document GOLDFISH-VIRTUAL-HARDWARE.TXT ...
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