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Android - How to copy the emulator to a friend for testing

Asked 2011-01-01T18:35:55.077
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I'd like to copy my whole emulator install to another computer with a desktop shortcut which will start it so that my friend can test my app. Has anyone done this?

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Well, it's not true that you need the complete SDK to run the emulator. If you copy only these files from the Android SDK installation and from your AVD (i.e ~/.android/avd/my.avd)

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|-- cache.img
|-- config.ini
|-- emulator
|-- emulator-user.ini
|-- kernel-qemu
|-- ramdisk.img
|-- sdcard.img
|-- system.img
|-- userdata.img
|-- userdata-qemu.img
`-- WVGA800
    |-- arrow_down.png
    |-- arrow_left.png
    |-- arrow_right.png
    |-- arrow_up.png
    |-- background_land.png
    |-- background_port.png
    |-- button.png
    |-- controls.png
    |-- hardware.ini
    |-- keyboard.png
    |-- key.png
    |-- layout
    |-- select.png
    `-- spacebar.png

you will be able to start the emulator as

$ ./emulator -sysdir . -kernel kernel-qemu -ramdisk ramdisk.img -system system.img -skindir . -skin WVGA800 -datadir .

and any APK installed and configuration set will persist. Your friend would only need to run this command line which you can put in a script.

answered 2011-01-02T06:40:41.810

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