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How to run Android emulator on Ubuntu or Debian

PostedonMarch3,2013byDanNanni 13Comments

Asthenameimplies,Androidemulatorenablesyoutotestrun AndroidappsonnonAndroiddevicesorcomputersrunning theemulator. HereisguideonhowtorunAndroidemulatoronUbuntuor Debian. AndroidemulatorcomeswithAndroidSDK,andthereforeyou needtoinstallAndroidSDK.Followthestepsbelowtoinstall AndroidSDKonLinux. AndroidSDKrequiresJavaJDK.ThereforeinstallJavaJDK first. ToinstallJavaJDKonUbuntuorDebian:
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ToinstallJavaJDKonCentOS,FedoraorRHEL,firstsetup Repoforgerepositoryonyoursystem,andthenrunthe

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NowdownloadAndroidSDKADTbundlefromAndroidofficial site.UnzipthedownloadedADTbundle,andcopythesdk directorytoyourpreferredlocation.HereIassumethatthe installationdirectoryofAndroidSDKis~/androidsdks. For64bitLinuxuser:youmustinstallanotherprerequisite calledi a 3 2 l i b s sinceAndroidemulatoris32bitsoftware. Thei a 3 2 l i b s packagecontainsasetofruntimelibrariesfor theia32/i386architecture,configuredforuseona64bit kernel.On64bitLinux,them k s d c a r d utilitywhichcreatesSD cardswillfailwithoutthispackage.
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YoucancheckthelistofavailableAVDsasfollows.
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Alternatively,youcanstartAndroidemulatordirectlyfrom commandlineasfollows.Inthiscase,specify "@[your_avd_name]"asanargumenttotheemulator.

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BootingupAndroidemulatormaybeslow(eventaking minutes)dependingonyourhardware.OnceAndroidemulator issuccessfullylaunched,youwillseeanrunninginstanceof Androiddevice.

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walterav onMay6,2013at9:52am said: HiDanNanni, Toimproveyourhowto,pleaseaddthefollowing sinceacleanubuntuinstallwon'thavethispackage!
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sudoaptgetinstallopenjdk7jdk Thisfixedtheerrorwhenrunning"~/adtbundlelinuxx86_64 20130219/sdk/tools/android":java:notfound: DanNannionMay6,2013at1:32pm said:

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Thanksforyourcomment.Youareright.Inthe originalpost,Ididnotgointothedetailsoninstalling AndroidSDK.Iupdatedtheposttoincludeinstructionson howtoinstallAndroidSDK. walterav onMay6,2013at10:06am said:

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Youmightalsoaddthatrunningtheemulatoris "slow"and"booting"theavdcantakeacoupleof minuteseasilywhileithangsontheandroidscreen. DanNannionMay6,2013at1:34pm said: Sure,noted. MaartenonJune23,2013at10:46am said:

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Thanksforyourmanual. Iamnotfamiliarwithsegfault.Isthereasolution forthemessageIget? AndoidSDKmanagerstartsupandcanaddanewAVDin

DeviceManager. WhenIstarttheAVD,segfaultoccurswithnoemulatorscreen. OnUbuntu12.04.2LTS: kernel:[15891.120233]emulatorarm[12235]:segfaultat10ip b6f2f294spb55921b0error4in libGL.so.173.14.36[b6ee5000+88000]. DanNannionJune23,2013at1:17pm said:

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Areyouusing64bitmachine?Ifso,thereare someknownissueswithAndroidemulatorproducing segmentationfaultsdueitspoorsupportforOpenGLESon x86_64.Try32bitmachineorusedifferentversionsofSDK (e.g.,version16). MaartenonJune29,2013at9:54am said:

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Iamnotthatfamiliarwiththespecs.Couldthis bea(not)workingcombination? Linuxdesktop3.5.034generic#55~precise1UbuntuSMPFri Jun716:32:06UTC2013i686i686i386GNU/Linux. javaversion"1.6.0_27" OpenJDKRuntimeEnvironment(IcedTea61.12.5)(6b27 1.12.50ubuntu0.12.04.1) OpenJDKServerVM(build20.0b12,mixedmode) DanNannionJune29,2013at11:50amsaid:

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Thatshouldbefine. ChandanonAugust2, 2013at9:04amsaid:

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Myemulatorstartsbutitshowsa blankscreenwithkeysontheside. Cananyonetellwhyitishappening? Itay onNovember19,2013at1:16am said: Didyoufigureitout?Igetthesameproblem HumbertoFerreira onAugust13,2013 at8:53amsaid:

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Thankyouverymuch!Itworkedperfectlyon Crunchbang!

Won'tstartatallonSeptember9,2013 at9:09pmsaid:

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Myemulatorwon'tevenstart.Igetadialogue with"startingemulatorforAVD'Testing'"witha progressbar.Theprogressbarreaches100%,andthenafter ashortdelay,thedialoguedisappears.Anemulator64arm processisleftrunningat100%CPUand1.4%memory, apparentlydoingnothing.Noemulatorwindowisshown. Outputwhenrunmanually:http://paste.debian.net/37622/

Aleksey onNovember29,2013at4:17 pmsaid: too.

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Didyousolvetheproblem?I'veencounteredit

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