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emulator — Manage Android emulators. More information: <https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-comma

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Problem

How to use the emulator command: Manage Android emulators. More information: <https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline>.

Solution

emulator — Manage Android emulators. More information: <https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline>.

Start an Android emulator device:

emulator -avd {{name}}

Display the webcams on your development computer that are available for emulation:

emulator -avd {{name}} -webcam-list

Start an emulator overriding the facing back camera setting (use -camera-front for front camera):

emulator -avd {{name}} -camera-back {{none|emulated|webcamN}}

Start an emulator, with a maximum network speed:

emulator -avd {{name}} -netspeed {{gsm|hscsd|gprs|edge|hsdpa|lte|evdo|full}}

Start an emulator with network latency:

emulator -avd {{name}} -netdelay {{gsm|hscsd|gprs|edge|hsdpa|lte|evdo|none}}

Start an emulator, making all TCP connections through a specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy (port number is required):

emulator -avd {{name}} -http-proxy {{http://example.com:80}}

Start an emulator with a given SD card partition image file:

emulator -avd {{name}} -sdcard {{path/to/sdcard.img}}

Display help:

emulator -help

Code Snippets

Start an Android emulator device

emulator -avd {{name}}

Display the webcams on your development computer that are available for emulation

emulator -avd {{name}} -webcam-list

Start an emulator overriding the facing back camera setting (use `-camera-front` for front camera)

emulator -avd {{name}} -camera-back {{none|emulated|webcamN}}

Start an emulator, with a maximum network speed

emulator -avd {{name}} -netspeed {{gsm|hscsd|gprs|edge|hsdpa|lte|evdo|full}}

Start an emulator with network latency

emulator -avd {{name}} -netdelay {{gsm|hscsd|gprs|edge|hsdpa|lte|evdo|none}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/emulator

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