README.md

Android Emulator without Android Studio

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

Directory Structure

$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/
├── bin/
├── build-tools/
|   └── 35.0.0/
├── cmdline-tools/
|   └── latest/
|   |   └── bin/
|   |       ├── avdmanager
|   |       ├── sdkmanager
|   |       ├── ...
|   └── tools/
|       └── bin/
|           ├── avdmanager
|           ├── sdkmanager
|           ├── ...
|── emulator/
|── licenses/
|── platform-tools/
|   ├─ adb
|   ├─ fastboot
|   ├─ ...
|── platforms/
|   └─ android-35/
|── system-images/
|   └─ android-35/

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

bin/download.sh

source bin/init.sh

sdkmanager --list
sdkmanager --update
avdmanager list

• Install packages for Android

bin/install.sh tv_4k android-35 google_apis_playstore arm64-v8a

• Restart adb

bin/restart.sh

• Start emulator

bin/start.sh tv_4k

bin/start.sh tv_4k -no-boot-anim -debug init,metrics -timezone Europe/Warsaw

• Real Device

Enable Developer Mode
Enable Do not use lock screen
Enable Usb Debugging
Default Usb configuration = MIDI
Select Usb configuration = MIDI
Disable permission monitoring
You have to disable the PlayProtect from Play Store application, but that's not recommended at all.