I'm working on an email app for Android, and I'd like to install the Gmail apk on my emulator in order to test it.
How can I do that?
I have seen tutorials on how to do it on windows, but I'm working with Linux.
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Sign up to join this communityI'm working on an email app for Android, and I'd like to install the Gmail apk on my emulator in order to test it.
How can I do that?
I have seen tutorials on how to do it on windows, but I'm working with Linux.
Steps:
Go to sdk/platform-tools with the command cd /home/android-sdk/platform-tools
you should copy the .apk
you want to install in this directory and add the path of it to environment variable in variable PATH "you might need restart"(PATH=$PATH:path to apk)
List the devices with the command ./adb devices
You can install your file with ./adb install .filename.apk Example for step 2 :
./adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554 device
Example for step 3 :
./adb install AndExplorer.apk
1083 KB/s (338651 bytes in 0.305s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/AndExplorer.apk
Success