Can the Android API provide all the details required to make an AVD?
Premise being, if it can, could an Android create an AVD of itself?
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Can the Android API provide all the details required to make an AVD?
Premise being, if it can, could an Android create an AVD of itself?
No, not using the framework APIs and not without a modified device.
You’d need to construct a userdata.img file, which is essentially a block-level copy of the device’s user-writable storage. However, you do not have block-level access to the filesystem.
On top of that, your application wouldn’t have permission to read much of the filesystem.
Now, if you wanted to create a blank AVD, then you might be able to do that (but why?). That’s because the requirements to create an AVD are pretty basic.
You’d also need a system.img file, and you don’t have the permission to create that from the device either. (There may also be legal issues involved here, which I will not discuss.)