Android Studio emulator

To start the Android Emulator and run an app in your project: In Android Studio, create an Android Virtual Device (AVD) that the emulator can use to install and run your app . In the toolbar, select the AVD that you want to run your app on from the target device drop-down menu. Click Run .

Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, which makes Linux the ideal Operating System to develop android in . This goes for both application development, custom ROM development and even kernel development.

If you’re using a 64-bit version of Linux, make sure you first install the required libraries for 64-bit machines . To launch Android Studio, open a terminal, navigate to the android-studio/bin/ directory, and execute studio.sh . Select whether you want to import previous Android Studio settings or not, then click OK.

The end of i686 support was announced in January 2017, with the February 2017 ISO being the last one including i686 and making the architecture unsupported in November 2017 . Since then, the community derivative Arch Linux 32 can be used for i686 hardware.

You can run the Android applications on your desktop’s launcher on Other category. If you want to use adb to debug, install android-tools. The anbox session-manager must already be running when launching it.