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Android Virtual Device without Android Studio

Guide for configuring Android Virtual Device(AVD) on macOS using command line.

Start with Homebrew installation if you do not have that installed.

Installation

First, make sure that openjdk is installed. If not, install most recent release with following command.

brew install java

The next step is to install android command line tools with following command.

brew install android-commandlinetools

Installing android-commandlinetools package will add several artifacts to the path /opt/homebrew/share/android-commandlinetools/. And, among those artifacts is a tool called sdkmanager that can be used to manage Android Software Development Kit(SDK), platform images and other build tools.

Download emulator and tools

Once the sdkmanager binary is configured correctly, it can be used to download the emulator and platform-tools as follows.

sdkmanager emulator platform-tools

Setup environment variables

After the downloads are completed, setup ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environment variable as follows and add following directories to $PATH to access executable files from command line.

export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="/opt/homebrew/share/android-commandlinetools/"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/share/android-commandlinetools/emulator:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/share/android-commandlinetools/platform-tools:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/share/android-commandlinetools/build-tools/34.0.0:$PATH"

Download packages

Android API Level 34

  • Download SDK for API level 34 
    sdkmanager "platforms;android-34"
  • Download Android build tools for API level 34 
    sdkmanager "build-tools;34.0.0"
  • Download Android system image for API level 34 and arm64 build 
    sdkmanager "system-images;android-34;google_apis;arm64-v8a"

Create an Android Virtual Device

avdmanager create avd --name mydevice --package "system-images;android-34;google_apis;arm64-v8a"

Start Android Virtual Device

emulator -avd mydevice

Android 34 virual device

Interact with device

Check if you can reboot Android Virtual Device with adb command.

adb reboot