Launching Android AVDsĪs part of the Android SDK installation you get a command-line tool called emulator, which is the Google-blessed way to work with AVDs from the command line, and which has a number of options that let you do a wide range of things. In this article I’ll walk through how you can set up these commands on your own machine. I named them ios-simulator and android-emulator, and here’s what they look like in action.
So I spent a little time setting up commands that let me launch these tools from my terminal. I use the iOS Simulator and AVDs (Android Virtual Devices) heavily, and was getting frustrated with the need to manually launch the two from Xcode and Android Studio, respectively.
