manage Android emulators | emulator cheat-sheet

emulator is a tool to manage Android emulators.

Start an Android emulator device:

emulator -avd name

Display the webcams on your development computer that are available for emulation:

emulator -avd name -webcam-list

Start an emulator overriding the facing back camera setting (use -camera-front for front camera):

emulator -avd name -camera-back none|emulated|webcamN

Start an emulator, with a maximum network speed:

emulator -avd name -netspeed gsm|hscsd|gprs|edge|hsdpa|lte|evdo|full

Start an emulator with network latency:

emulator -avd name -netdelay gsm|hscsd|gprs|edge|hsdpa|lte|evdo|none

Start an emulator, making all TCP connections through a specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy (port number is required):

emulator -avd name -http-proxy http://example.com:80

Start an emulator with a given SD card partition image file:

emulator -avd name -sdcard path/to/sdcard.img

Display help:

emulator -help

You can checkout documentation of Android emulator on the official website: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline .

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