How to create an AVD for Android 4.0

I just did the same. If you look in the “Android SDK Manager” in the “Android 4.0 (API 14)” section you’ll see a few packages. One of these is named “ARM EABI v7a System Image”. This is what you need to download in order to create an Android 4.0 virtual device:

Is there a way to automate the Android SDK installation?

UPDATE The latest versions introduce sdkmanager, a command line tool that allows you to view, install, update, and uninstall packages for the Android SDK. The sdkmanager tool is provided in the Android SDK Tools package (25.2.3 and higher) and is located in android_sdk/tools/bin/. sdkmanager [–uninstall] [<common args>] [–package_file <file>] [<packages>…] sdkmanager –update [<common args>] sdkmanager … Read more

Run AVD Emulator without Android Studio

The way to run the emulator from the console (I assume that you installed it before, using Android Studio) is: run cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools/bin && ./avdmanager list avd OR cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools && ./emulator -list-avds You will get the list od your virtual installed devices. In my case it was: Available Android Virtual Devices: Name: Galaxy_Nexus_API_17 Device: … Read more

Android – Application (apk) Maximum size

Today i came across one point where it is clearly defined that we can upload maximum 50MB sized APK onto the market. So indirectly, we can install an application from a market having maximum 50MB size. Here is a link: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=113469 , here just check the below sentence. APK file size: Maximum supported size is … Read more