Is Google Play Store supported in avd emulators?

Question

After googling quite a bit I am unable to find the answer to this question. Is google play store officially support in avd emulators.

I know it was once stopped , t

Answer 1

When you create a virtual device from Android Studio pay attention to the Play Store Column in the device table. The images with the play store icon have google play pre-installed.

❗️ In system images that come with google play root is not available.

After you've created the AVD you'll also be able to see from the Android Studio AVD Manager which of your images have google play installed:

Answer 2

Easiest way: You should create a new emulator, before opening it for the first time follow these 3 easy steps:

1- go to C:\Users[user].android\avd[your virtual device folder] open "config.ini" with text editor like notepad

2- change

"PlayStore.enabled=false" to "PlayStore.enabled=true"

3- change

mage.sysdir.1 = system-images\android-30\google_apis\x86\

to

image.sysdir.1 = system-images\android-30\google_apis_playstore\x86\

Answer 3

The Google Play Store is now officially preinstalled the Android Emulator. Make sure you are running the latest version of Android Studio 2.4. In the Android Studio AVD Manager choose a virtual device configuration that has the Google Play store icon next to it, and then select one of the system images that have the label "Google Play". See this release note: https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2017/04/android-studio-24-preview-4-is-now.html