Android shake detection on emulator

I am pretty new to android. I have a use case where I need to detect a shake and show some images in my application. Can I test sha开发者_如何学运维ke functionality on android emulator ? What are the other alternatives apart from testing it on a real phone ?

I guess what you are looking for is Sensor Simulator http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/SensorSimulator

Hope this helps