The purpose of this section is to guide you to create in your development environment an Android emulator.
Android emulators are managed through a UI called AVD Manager
Android Studio is the official emulator of Google and is a developmental IDE(Integrated Development Environment). It has been developed mainly for developers and has a lot of in-built tools which are of a great use to these developers. Deeply-integrated debugging for cross-platform and Android projects. The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is included when you install Visual Studio to develop for Android, iOS, and Windows —all from one code base using familiar languages such as C#, JavaScript, and C.
Best Android Emulators for Window and Mac PC. Bluestacks 2 Android Emulator. Bluestacks has been around for quite a long time now and is a very popular Android Emulator out there. Nox Android Emulator. Genymotion Android Emulator: 5. Android Studio Emulator on mac. To prepare to run and test your Flutter app on the Android emulator, follow the following steps. Go to Tools AVD Manager (Android Virtual Device (AVD) is a configuration that defines the characteristics of an Android device that you want to simulate in the Android Emulator) Or you can click on the icon as shown. In this video we will see How to Install Android Studio on macOS. Installing Android Studio on Mac is very easy. How to Install Java on Mac https://youtu.be/.
AVD Manager has a nice interface when started from Android Studio.
Start Android Studio app, then create a blank project.
Go to the Tools menu -> :Android -> AVD Manager:
If no emulator has been created you should start with this screen:
Click the Create Virtual Device button.
In the Select Hardware window , select Nexus 5 as shown in the following snapshot:
Click the Next button.
In the System Image, select the system image Nougat, API Level 25 , ABI x86 :
Click on the download link to download the selected System Image. This download process is done through SDK Manager.
Once the download is complete, click on the Next button.
In the Verify Configuration window, check any parameter :
Then click on the Finish button.
AVD Manager shows you the newly created device:
Mac M1 Android Studio Emulator
Click on the launch button to launch the newly created AVD in the emulator.
Notice in the Run Window of Android Studio the command line used to start the device:
which can be shortened to :
Android Studio Mac Emulator
How to start Android Emulator from Terminal?
Stop the emulator started by Android Studio. Open the Terminal app and type the following command:
This should start the emulator with the selected AVD.
