RUN ADB ON MAC ANDROID EMULATOR HOW TO

Unexpected crash of the emulator can happen (IвЂ™ve read on sites, but didnвЂ™t happen in my tests).

emulator_name: '$ANDROID_EMULATOR_NAME' If thenД®nvman add -key ANDROID_EMULATOR_EXISTS -value 'false' workdir: '/Users/vagrant/.android/avd/' This way you always will have a fresh, empty and clean android emulator image.ДЄn example workflow (Best if you keep it separated workflow, and add it to your own workflowвЂ™s run_before):.

If not exists, Start Android Emulator again, to have a running device after the first cache run alsoДЄfter the first cache the script which checks if the emulator exists, wonвЂ™t export an environment variable, so the steps starting with If not exists wonвЂ™t run anymore.

_If not exists,_Script: sleep some (for ex.: 10 secs, let emulator to boot fully), then kill emulator (this is when snapshot images are witten).

If not exists, Create Android Emulator with an exra option: -snapshot.

Script to check if avd exists in /Users/vagrant/.android/avd/$ANDROID_EMULATOR_NAME.

IвЂ™ve created an environment variable ANDROID_EMULATOR_NAME set itвЂ™s value to cachedEmulator and I used it in all the steps, to be easy to change emulator name later on. With caching it doesnвЂ™t matter how long your workflow will run, android emulatorвЂ™s boot time always will be the same.

RUN ADB ON MAC ANDROID EMULATOR HOW TO

The workflow in ( How to speed up Android emulator heavy workflows) works very well, but only if your workflow average full build time is more than 4-5 minutes, because then there is enought time in the background for the emulator to be able to boot. Well, thatвЂ™s not bad but, letвЂ™s try now with some caching! +-+ ( How to speed up Android emulator heavy workflows) ItвЂ™s result was a great amount of time saved, in my example from the original 581 seconds IвЂ™ve managed to successfully decrease it to 432 seconds.

The last try to speed up android emulator was making itвЂ™s booting happen in the background while other steps can run with it paralell. The two steps Bitrise.io Cache:Pull and Bitrise.io Cache:Push now helps a lot of users to speed up their build times, and caching emulator snapshots seems to be a good idea as it usually takes couple of minutes to boot up an arm Android emulator.

Please follow the written below if you are still using emulator as executable to create and use your emulator. For now it seems like, the new avdmanager breaks this how-to.

Run adb on mac android emulator