Android Emulator without Android Studio

• Download Command line tools only
• Inspired from emulator-install-using-avdmanager
• Android CLI

Directory Structure

$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/
├── bin/
├── build-tools/
|   └── 37.0.0/
├── cmdline-tools/
|   └── latest/
|   |   └── bin/
|   |       ├── android
|   |       ├── avdmanager
|   |       ├── sdkmanager
|   |       ├── ...
|   └── tools/
|       └── bin/
|           ├── avdmanager
|           ├── sdkmanager
|           ├── ...
|── emulator/
|── licenses/
|── platform-tools/
|   ├─ adb
|   ├─ fastboot
|   ├─ ...
|── platforms/
|   └─ android-37.1/
|── system-images/
|   └─ android-37.1/

• Download and call init.sh to set PATH for SDK

bin/download.sh

source bin/init.sh

android sdk list --all --all-versions
android sdk update
avdmanager list

• Install packages for Android

bin/install.sh android-37.1 google_apis_ps16k arm64-v8a

• Restart adb

bin/restart.sh

• Start emulator

bin/start.sh android-37.1

bin/start.sh android-37.1 -no-boot-anim -debug init,metrics -timezone Europe/Warsaw

• Debloat

bin/debloat.sh