Run Android Emulator without Android Studio

android-emulator-standalone.md

Android Emulator without Android Studio

• Download Command line tools only.
• Configure your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT directory, create inside cmdline-tools and decompress zip downloaded above.
• Set Environment Variable ANDROID_SDK_ROOT and added to PATH bin tools $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools/bin.
• Install packages for Android API 23 (MARSHMELLOW (6.0), etc) sdkmanager "system-images;android-23;google_apis;x86" "platforms;android-23"
• Install emulator and tools: sdkmanager "emulator" "platform-tools"
• Add tools to PATH: $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/emulator, $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/platform-tools
• Create emulator device: avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name "pixel_6.0" --device "pixel" --package "system-images;android-23;google_apis;x86" --tag "google_apis" --abi "x86"
• Start emulator: emulator @pixel_6.0

Directory Structure

$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/
├── cmdline-tools/
|   └── tools/
|       └── bin/
|           ├── avdmanager
|           ├── sdkmanager
|           ├── ...
|── emulator/
|── platforms/
|   └─ android-23/
|── platform-tools/
|   ├─ adb
|   ├─ fastboot
|   ├─ ...
|── system-images/
|   └─ android-23/

Do you have like a video tutorial on this?