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90+% of the time, I open Android Studio just to open AVD, then I close Android Studio. Is there a way to open AVD or emulators directly? I'm using Windows 10.

I tried the avdmanager command, but there doesn't seem to be a way to open an emulator using it.

I can't find an exe to open the AVD manager directly.

fixer1234
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Leo Jiang
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I had the same question today, and I found this nice gist:

https://gist.github.com/hidroh/67b2ee7bbdd9038450c00d8a4d69c3fa

Notes:

  • Added the Android SDK tools/ directory to my PATH.
  • Downloaded the gist above onto my desktop to a file called avd.sh.
  • Since I have Git for Windows installed, the .sh file opens in Git Bash automatically when I double click it.
  • It should find all the emulators you setup in AVD and give you an option to choose which one. Type in the number, and the emulator will launch!

Hope this helps!

Jesse Zamora
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  • I'm still curious if it's possible to launch the AVD manager itself without going into Android Studio, so if anyone figures it out let me know. – Jesse Zamora Mar 09 '17 at 17:40
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    Can you clarify what the gist of that gist is? If the link disappears, what should OP do? – bertieb Mar 16 '17 at 01:16
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This is what I did:

-I've installed git
-run git bash
-go to this directory Android/sdk/tools/bin (hope you know how to use cd command)
-emulator -list-avds (to get the list of avds)
-emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Nexus_7_API_23

Nexus_7_API_23 is one of the emulators I made before inside android studio. You select one of yours that you got on your list.

Eftekhari
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Create a run-emulator.sh file with:

pushd ${ANDROID_HOME}/emulator
./emulator -list-avds | cat -n
printf "Select AVD: "
read index
avd=$(./emulator -list-avds | sed "${index}q;d")
echo "Selected $avd"
./emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd $avd
popd

Give run permissions to file with chmod +x run-emulator.sh

Call ./run-emulator.sh

It will show you a menu with options to quick start any virtual image.

Ricardo Pereira
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Tiago Gouvêa
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In Ubuntu 19.10!

With the environment variables already configured ($ANDROID_HOME), you should be able to list the AVDs, but if you are unable to start the AVD, do the following:

# Check the AVD target name

emulator -list-avds

# But to start do:

$ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator @avd_name

or

/home/$USER/Android/Sdk/emulator/emulator @avd_name

Cesar Devesa
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