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UMAR-MOBITSOLUTIONS
UMAR-MOBITSOLUTIONS

Reputation: 77984

how to add images to android emulator?

any one guide me how to add some images to emulator image gallery?

Upvotes: 34

Views: 52291

Answers (9)

Rahul Repala
Rahul Repala

Reputation: 109

  1. Open google browser on emulator and type download free images.
  2. You will see options like - unsplash, pexels open website of your wish
  3. Then choose an image that you want to download.
  4. Click on the download button. it will ask permission. give permission. now your image is downloaded.

Upvotes: 0

Swindler
Swindler

Reputation: 800

Combining a couple solutions here since newer versions of Android crash without the right permissions:

  1. Turn on the Storage permission in Settings -> Apps -> Browser -> Permissions to give your emulator browser access to storage.
  2. In the emulator Browser app, long press on any image and save it.
  3. Saved images now appear in the emulator Gallery app.

Upvotes: 6

naseer mohammad
naseer mohammad

Reputation: 281

open device settings in android emulator.find storage>internal storage(shared)>images>download.

then drag and drop your image file to the download folder.

it will be copied to your AVD internal storage and will show to you.

if it does not showed in your AVD,you have to restart your device.

then you can see the image you copied.

Upvotes: 0

SocialSupaCrew
SocialSupaCrew

Reputation: 464

To those (Dmitry's answers) that the browser crash when you try to download image from the emulator browser :

You have to authorise the storage to your browser.

Go to Settings > Apps > Browser > Authorisation > and allow Storage

Now you should be able to download any image from this browser.

PS : I would have added a comment to Dmitry's answer but I don't have enough rep

Upvotes: 5

Blaze Gawlik
Blaze Gawlik

Reputation: 347

On the off chance someone had this problem: I had issues seeing files I downloaded from browser on API 23 in Android Studio. I've been to four different StackOverflow threads but nothing was helping. I tried Scanning my SD Card from within the Emulator using Dev Tools>Media Provider but it kept crashing.

What finally worked for me was to go to the Downloads app on the Emulator. Settings(top right)> Show SD Card. After this I long-click on the image I would like to see in Gallery, Settings > Copy To. Now we have to navigate to the right place in SD Card.

MenuBar(top left) > SDCARD > Android > data > com.android.browser > files > Download ...finally you should still be within the "Copy To" mode so simply click on Copy (bottom right).

You can also try: MenuBar > Internal Storage > Downloads

Upvotes: 4

nikhilgohil11
nikhilgohil11

Reputation: 1225

Drag image to android emulator and it will transfer image file to download folder. (this only works for genymotion)

Upvotes: 12

lokoko
lokoko

Reputation: 5803

Goto the DDMS tool in eclipse to push or pull a file onto the emulator. Then go into the running emulator itself, select "Dev Tools" from the Apps screen, select "Media Scanner" (or "Media Provider" in newer versions of Android) to get the emulator to recognize the files so they would be displayed in the Media Gallery.

Upvotes: 27

Steven Magana-Zook
Steven Magana-Zook

Reputation: 2759

I recently had the same problem. I wanted to have images in the gallery, so that i could use the Gallery intent to pull in one of those images.

What I did was I set the AVD to have the sim camera, went to the camera app and took a couple pictures. The pics were nothing but the square at different points moving around the frame but it works as examples images.

Its a quick solution to generate images in the gallery if you dont want to bother with the sd card emulation.

Upvotes: 3

Dmitry
Dmitry

Reputation: 17350

If you don't care what image this is, it might just be easier to browse to any image on the internet with Android browser, long-tap on it and select "Save image" from the context menu.

Upvotes: 24

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