Question

I have a bizarre problem: I want to start an android emulator and at the same time install an already built .apk. The thing is that I want to do all these from the command line and especially from ONE terminal. (actually from a Makefile…).

If i start the emulator, it never stops until I close it thus I cannot execute any other command. On the other hand I don’t know emulator’s name before hand, although probably will be 5554.

Answer 1

Why not start the emulator in the background? From the command line, this is done by appending an ampersand to the command:

emulator -avd <whatever> &;

and then communicate with it via ADB:

adb install MyApp.apk