Running Android Emulator from command line

It will be very easy to run Android Emulator if your Android SKD PATH is already set.

You can set Android PATH in MAC from my previous post - How to set Android SDK PATH in Mac

Once your PATH setup is done, use below commands:

To get list of virtual devices use -list-avds command. This command will return names of installed Android Virtual devices
emulator -list-avds

To run emulator use command
emulator -avd avdName


If you Android SDK PATH is not set, you can run it from the installed directory path:

Go To:
/Users/userName/Library/Android/sdk/tools
To get list of emulators

./emulator -list-avds
To run
./emulator -avd avdName

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