Android Setup

This document contains the steps required to setup the Android platform.

Visit Android Developers.

Download the Android SDK tools into this directory.

Accept the Terms of Services.

Download the Platform Tools from this site into this directory.

Accept the Terms of Services.

Set the following env variables:

export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="$(pwd)/android/tools"
export ANDROID_HOME="${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}"
export ANDROID_AVD_HOME="$(pwd)/android/platform-tools"
export ANDROID_AAPT_HOME="$(pwd)/android/build-tools/29.0.0"

Install the following libraries.

${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/sdkmanager "system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86"
${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/sdkmanager "platforms;android-25"
${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/sdkmanager "build-tools;29.0.0"

Accept all the licenses.

${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/sdkmanager --licenses

Install the emulator.

${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/sdkmanager --channel=3 emulator

Create a Virtual Device.

echo no | "${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/avdmanager" \
            create avd \
            --force \
            --name "AppTimTest" \
            --abi "x86" \
            --package 'system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86'

Validate the AVD has been created

"${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/bin/avdmanager" list avd

Available Android Virtual Devices:
    Name: AppTimTest
    Path: /root/.android/avd/AppTimTest.avd
  Target: Google APIs (Google Inc.)
          Based on: Android 7.1.1 (Nougat) Tag/ABI: google_apis/x86

List all the emulator.

"${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/emulator" -list-avds

AppTimTest

Start the emulator.

"${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/emulator" -avd AppTimTest

Verify the list of attached devices.

Make sure you enable the USB debugging and on any of the attached devices.

"${ANDROID_AVD_HOME}/adb" devices

List of devices attached
2960f439050ea6eb	device
emulator-5554	    device

The first device is a physical device and the second one is an emulator.

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