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how to adb wait-for-device until the home screen shows up?
This is an old question and borderline off-topic but here is how to do it in a single line:
adb wait-for-device shell 'while [[ -z $(getprop sys.boot_completed) ]]; do sleep 1; done; input keyevent ...
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Can't use chmod to alter permissions on emulated phone
Figured it out - seems like you just can't change permissions for files on sdcard. Moved it to data/local and chmod worked like a charm.
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Reinstall AVD on Ubuntu 16.04
I am using Android Studio 2.1.1 and Ubuntu 16.04 (x64). The following solved the problems (sh: 1: glxinfo: not found and libGL error:.) for me.
$ sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6 (if it is not ...
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Use image file as camera
There are 3rd-party "fake camera" apps that will let you to choose an image instead, such as:
Image2Camera (free)
Fake Camera by New Horizon Apps (free)
Fake Camera - donate version by Vaclav Balak (...
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Root Android virtual device with Android 7.1.1
How to root android emulator (Android 7.1.1/ Nougat)
I’m pleased to inform the community of an easier way to root android emulator (run from standalone Android SDK)
Requirements:
SuperSU app (...
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How does the Android emulator emulate the RAM?
Android Virtual Devices are emulated using QEMU hypervisor which use physical memory. As any process, the allocated memory pages can be unmapped and swapped to disk or other storage by the host system....
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How to install Google Play services on an Android 6.0 emulator?
1) Go get GApps for the emulator from http://opengapps.org
2) Unzip to get
GmsCore.apk
GoogleServicesFramework.apk
GoogleLoginService.apk
Phonesky.apk
Launch the emulator from the command line,...
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Does an Android Emulator exist which works with every possible app?
This can happen for the following reasons:
The emulator presents an x86/MIPS CPU which the app does not support (probably not in your case as the app doesn't seem to require native code).
Google ...
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Check if emulator is using kvm in android studio
I just checked if the file /dev/kvm was opened before and after the emulator started:
sudo lsof -n | grep /dev/kvm
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Android AVD throws errors, such as "Failed to sync vcpu reg"
Make sure that you're not running any other virtual machines, then try again.
I was running a guest Windows 8 VirtualBox on El Capitan and I got the same error when I tried to run a virtual Android ...
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Unable to get output buffers (err=-38) when attempting to screen-record emulator from ADB
From ADB documentation :
"Some devices might not be able to record at their native display
resolution. If you encounter problems with screen recording, try using
a lower screen resolution."
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Downloading and installing the DEBIAN ARM packages and installing them on Termux?
Termux's repository of ARM packages can be found at: termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/
Additional resources that may be of interest:
Termux Help: Package Management
Termux Help: Termux and ...
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How to start AVD emulator without device frame
The following was implemented on a default configuration.
Open AndroidStudio (AS) AVD Manager, click the "pencil icon" to edit the virtual device settings, uncheck the box next to "Enable Device ...
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Install Google Play on Android SDK Emulator
For that, you have to install the Google Play image from the Android Studio SDK Manager. But you can't get it for API level below 24
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Android AVD throws errors, such as "Failed to sync vcpu reg"
In my case, it's the docker program conflict with AVD, quit docker then restart the AVD is ok.
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How can I use my PC's keyboard in the Android emulator?
I had this issue despite having the correct configuration, and realized that the actual problem was that the focus was on the emulator control buttons windows, as reported in this issue.
To check if ...
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Android Emulator change system sound
I'm running Windows 10 and I found that when launching the Android emulator, it would disable my Dolby audio enhancements. I simply had to turn it back on in the Sound properties.
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The emulator process for AVD Nexus_5X_API_22 was killed
Go to: Tools > Android > AVD Manager
Press the "edit" (pencil) icon next to your AVD
Change "Graphics" to "Software".
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How to detect GPS status through adb shell?
You can use this command:
adb shell settings get secure location_providers_allowed
Possible outcomes:
returns nothing, implying the GPS is switched off.
gps,wifi,network or gps,network -- High ...
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Adjust volume with Android Terminal Emulator command?
Use the following commands to change the volume from Android Terminal emulator (or other terminal emulator apps):
Volume Up:
input keyevent 24
Volume Down:
input keyevent 25
In case pressing the ...
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How to startd the AVD manager without starting android studio
It is just the android avd command, where the android shell script is in the tools/ directory of your SDK installation.
Or go to the directory and
cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools/bin/
./avdmanager
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Is it possible to install an app compiled for ARM on an x86 emulator image
Genymotion with ARM translation
You can use genymotion (the personal use version is free) with an Oreo ROM + ARM_Translation_Oreo.zip (google the filename to download it). Once you download the zip ...
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How to bypass an app's ability to know is being run on an emulator rather than a real device.
In general there are three ways to bypass an emulator check:
Modify the app and remove the emulator check.
Modify the emulator so that it pretends to be a real device.
Modify the system calls the app ...
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adb install apk successful on device (or emulator), but not found
perform a full uninstall
adb uninstall <your-package-name>
then try reinstall your app
adb install app.apk
I faced this issue on flutter release installation.
This problem is caused because of ...
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Can I get more RAM in emulator while still having a Google Play image?
The UI does not allow to change the RAM size neither when creating a new virtual device nor later when editing the virtual device.
However on file level you can simply open the configuration file of ...
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"cannot add library libvulkan.so" when trying to start emulator
I don't really have a solution, but a workaround: I had the same problem on openSUSE Leap 15.4 and could solve it by choosing "Software - GLES 2.0" for "Emulated Performance" when ...
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Attempt to root AVD running Android 4.4/5.1 is failing
I have tested and found that irrespective of the version of Android, if the ABI is arm, armeabi or maybe even mips (not sure), the process of rooting is going to work. They didn't worked for me, as of ...
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Reinstall AVD on Ubuntu 16.04
Install in your system lib64stdc++6
# sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6
Then link the new installed libraries to the android sdk tools path
$ cd $ANDROID_HOME/Sdk/tools/lib64/libstdc++
$ mv ...
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read-only file system on emulator
I tried your answer but it didn't work.
Eventually the following Stack Overflow Answer worked.
1) android-sdk-macosx/tools/emulator -avd <avdname> -writable-system
2) ./adb root
3) ./adb ...
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How to run Android apps on Amazon EC2?
Thanks to Ravello’s full nested virtualization support, it is possible to run Android emulator with hardware acceleration in any public cloud by following these steps:
Create a host VM in Ravello (on ...
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