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Android emulator on Ubuntu 10.04 in 60 seconds.

Submitted by rpjday on Tue, 2010-08-10 17:47

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So what's happening here?

What's happening here is the step-by-step instructions for how to install the Android emulator on Ubuntu 10.04 in 60 seconds (admittedly not including the ridiculous time it takes to download the various Android platforms you want to support). And so, without further ado, let's get to work.

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$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

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Once that's installed, you might want to verify that it seems to work:
$ java -version java version "1.6.0_18" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode) $

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Looks good. Moving on ...

Downloading the Android SDK

Grab the latest Android SDK tarball from here, and install it somewhere under your home directory. Once you do that, you should add the newly-installed tools/ subdirectory to your search path, since you're going to want to be running the android and emulator executables real soon now. Once you do that, naturally, log out and log back in to make sure you have the updated search path. And now, the real downloading starts.

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Adding the SDK components

At this point, you need to download and install the SDK components for whatever versions of Android you want to support. Initially, you can tell that you have no SDK versions downloaded:
$ android list Available Android targets: Available Android Virtual Devices: $

So what you need to do is run the following, and select whatever versions of the SDK you're going to need. Unless you're being frugal, just select everything since you never know if you'll need to support older versions:
$ android update sdk

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verify that it's all there with:

$ android list Available Android targets: id: 1 or "android-2" Name: Android 1.1 Type: Platform API level: 2 Revision: 1 Skins: HVGA-P, QVGA-P, HVGA (default), QVGA-L, HVGA-L id: 2 or "android-3" Name: Android 1.5 Type: Platform API level: 3 Revision: 4 Skins: HVGA-P, QVGA-P, HVGA (default), QVGA-L, HVGA-L id: 3 or "android-4" Name: Android 1.6 Type: Platform API level: 4 Revision: 3 Skins: HVGA (default), WVGA854, WVGA800, QVGA id: 4 or "android-5" Name: Android 2.0 Type: Platform API level: 5 Revision: 1 Skins: HVGA (default), WVGA854, WVGA800, WQVGA400, WQVGA432, QVGA id: 5 or "android-6" Name: Android 2.0.1 Type: Platform API level: 6 Revision: 1 Skins: HVGA (default), WVGA854, WVGA800, WQVGA400, WQVGA432, QVGA id: 6 or "android-7" Name: Android 2.1-update1 Type: Platform API level: 7 Revision: 2 Skins: HVGA (default), WVGA854, WVGA800, WQVGA400, WQVGA432, QVGA id: 7 or "android-8" Name: Android 2.2 Type: Platform API level: 8 Revision: 2 Skins: HVGA (default), WVGA854, WVGA800, WQVGA400, WQVGA432, QVGA Available Android Virtual Devices: $

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So that tells us that we have support for various versions of Android, but no virtual devices yet. No problem. Time to create some virtual devices.

Creating a virtual device or two

A fairly simple procedure:
$ android

Select "New," give your new Android Virtual Device (AVD) a name and so on, but there's one caution -- apparently, there's still a bug (reported by your humble author) that you can't select an SD card image of size 2G or larger so just pick something smaller. Once that appears to be done, close the window and verify you have a new AVD (given some values I pulled out of thin air):
$ android Available Name: Path: Target: list avds Android Virtual Devices: avd2.2 /home/rpjday/.android/avd/avd2.2.avd Android 2.2 (API level 8)

Skin: HVGA Sdcard: 1024M $

Run that baby!

$ emulator @avd2.2

Note that, the first time you run the emulator on a new AVD, it might take a while so be patient. And now, the fun part -- installing a new app.

Installing a new app on your emulator

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A detailed explanation of how to install a new Android app can be found here, but let's keep it short. Assuming you have your new app in .apk file format, simply make sure your emulator is running:
$ adb devices List of devices attached emulator-5554 device $

at which point, install the app with:

$ adb install [.apk filename here]

whereupon the icon for your new app should show up in the emulator. Comments? Questions? android emulator ubuntu Add new comment Printer-friendly version

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emulator cannot be stopped, only killed
Submitted by Visitor on Thu, 2011-03-17 22:44.

I wonder if somebody faced an issue when after clicking emulator's x-button it becomes frozen (while there is some disk activity) and never exits. Restarting Ubuntu in this situation never ends either. But it is possible to kill the process and this somehow helps. Thanks. reply

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