ZEASN, the world’s leading provider of OTT and smart TV solutions, released the new version of Whale Linux Emulator (version 1.1), a tool that allows developers to do all the tweaks needed to build excellent TV apps from the comfort of their computers. Through this new simulation tool, ZEASN will help global developers to debug TV apps, shorten development time, reduce development costs, and improve testing efficiency.

The new Whale Linux Emulator is available as a pre-packaged VirtualBox image. This ensures a stable and consistent reference working environment, pre-configured to resemble those found on a real device, and allows developers to easily check how their creations will look and work on the latest Honghu or other TV browsers. The new tool provides a series of useful functions such as customizing user agents, adjusting resolution, bookmarks, proxy configuration, and virtual remote control.

The main features of the new Whale Linux Emulator:

1. Provide a testing environment based on Honghu Browser.

2. Support custom user agent information.

3. Enhanced virtual remote control, you can control the application in the emulator just like on an actual device.

4. Bookmark function, enable developers to launch TV apps quickly.

5. Support resolution, and proxy information configuration.

Suriko Wei, Senior Director of R&D Center at ZEASN said, “Assisting global developers to create TV apps based on Linux platform is one of Whale Eco’s important missions. The new Emulator helps teams of any size easily develop and test apps right from their own laptops. The emulator is one of the many professional and powerful technical support tools on the Whale Developer Portal. Our goal is to encourage the success of partners in Whale Eco, we will continue to update Emulator and help developers to extend innovative new app experiences to the TV.”