David Janes' Code Weblog

I was interested in trying the Android emulators yesterday on my Mac, so here’s what I did. It’s much simpler than the documentation makes it out to be:

• download and unpack the SDK zip file from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• add the SDK tools directory to your path (in ~/.bashrc):
  export PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/…/android-sdk-mac/tools
• start Terminal
• run the “Android SDK and AVD Manager”:
  android &
  • select Settings on the left
    • select Force https://… sources to be fetched using http://…
  • select Available Packages on the left
    • select the checkboxes for the various SDK Platforms
    • press Install Selected
• make an “Android Virtual Device”:
  android create avd --target 6 --name david -c 200M
• run the emulator (note: it can take minutes to boot):
  emulator -avd david