Run AVD Emulator without Android Studio

Question

is there a way to run the emulator without starting the Android Studio first. Perhaps from the command line. I know that this feature was available in older versions and has

Answer 1

Open your terminal and

cd path_to/Android/Sdk/emulator

And run the following to get the emulator name that you created before using android studio

./emulator -list-avds

Replace $emulator_name with the one you want to launch and run

./emulator -avd $emulator_name

Answer 2

cd C:\Users\{computer_user_name}\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator

then run:

./emulator -list-avds
or
emulator -list-avds

output:

PIXEL_2_API_29
PIXEL_2_XL_API_29

then run:

./emulator -avd PIXEL_2_XL_API_29
or
emulator -avd PIXEL_2_XL_API_29

That's it

Answer 3

Got it working for Windows 10:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools>emulator -list-avds
Nexus_5X_API_28
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator>emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_28

Answer 4

The way to run the emulator from the console (I assume that you installed it before, using Android Studio) is:

run

cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools/bin && ./avdmanager list avd

OR

cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools && ./emulator -list-avds

You will get the list od your virtual installed devices. In my case it was:

Available Android Virtual Devices:
  Name: Galaxy_Nexus_API_17
  Device: Galaxy Nexus (Google)
  Path: /home/piotr/.android/avd/Galaxy_Nexus_API_17.avd
  Target: Google APIs (Google Inc.)
  Based on: Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) Tag/ABI: google_apis/x86
  Skin: galaxy_nexus
  Sdcard: /home/piotr/.android/avd/Galaxy_Nexus_API_17.avd/sdcard.img

Copy name of the device you want to run and then

cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools && ./emulator -avd NAME_OF_YOUR_DEVICE

in my case:

cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools && ./emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_23

Answer 5

For Linux/Ubuntu

Create a new File from Terminal as

gedit emulator.sh (Use any Name for file here i have used "emulator")

now write following lines in this file

cd /home/userName/Android/Sdk/tools/

./emulator @your created Android device Name

(here after @ write the name of your AVD e.g

./emulator @Nexus_5X_API_27 )

Now save the file and run your emulator using following commands

./emulator.sh

In case of Permission denied use following command before above command

chmod +x emulator.sh

All set Go..

Answer 6

if you installed Git on your system. then you can run .sh bash code. I create the bash code for search from your created ADV Devices and list them. then you can select the number of adv device for run emulator without running Android studio.

link: adv-emulator.sh

note [windows os]: please first add %appdata%\..\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator to your system Environment path, otherwise the bash-code not work.