Understanding Android Emulator – Once and Forever
Definition, An emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (know as the host) to behave like another computer system (know as the guest) What is an Emulator in Android? An Android emulator is an Android Virtual Device (AVD) that represents a specific Android device. You can use an Android emulator as a target platform to run and test your Android applications on your PC It uses an open source processor emulator technology called QEMU . Run your app on the emulator To use the Android Emulator, you must create an Android Virtual Device (AVD) using Android Studio. First, we need to create an AVD with the same device configurations as real device, then launch this AVD from AVD manager. 1. In Command Line, navigate to android_sdk/tools/ and start the Emulator by specifying your AVD emulator -avd avd_name ...