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Jeremy Logan
Jeremy Logan

Reputation: 47514

Expanding the size of an Android Virtual Device (emulator) instance?

On a relatively new emulator image (AVD) I have about 40mb of free space. How can I expand this?

UPDATE: Just to be clear... I'm talking about the "Internal phone storage" size, not the SD Card size.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 19477

Answers (2)

Erich Douglass
Erich Douglass

Reputation: 52002

I think:

$ emulator -partition-size <number of megabytes>

is what you're looking for. I tried a few different values in the emulator and the "internal phone storage" setting seemed to reflect the values I passed in.

Upvotes: 33

Dan Lew
Dan Lew

Reputation: 87420

If you're talking about the SD card size, I believe you'll need to make a new SD card file of a larger file, then load your AVD using the new SD card you've created. They have instructions on how to create an SD card (and load it into an AVD) here: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html#creatingm

Essentially, make the SD card:

$ mksdcard <size> <file>

Then load it into your emulator using the -sdcard argument:

$ emulator -sdcard <filepath>

Upvotes: -2

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