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Sheph
Sheph

Reputation: 675

Difference between emulators

I've created a virtual device Nexus_5X_API_27_x86. Running through Android Studio it runs fine.

I added ANDROID_HOME to point towards C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk, since Appium wants this defined. And %ANDROID_HOME%\tools; to PATH as according to https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline.html it uses the emulator executable in there (at least on Mac OS).

But if I run that emulator it panics with:

PS D:\AppiumTest> emulator -avd Nexus_5x_API_27_x86
PANIC: Missing emulator engine program for 'x86' CPU.

There's also no other emulator executables in the tools folder. However if I run it with the emulator in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator it runs as it should.

PS D:\AppiumTest> C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator -avd Nexus_5x_API_27_x86
HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode.
emulator: Saving state on exit with session uptime 2068 ms

In the Sdk\emulator folder there's also a whole slew of different emulator executables (64, arm, ect.).

So the question is, whats the use of Sdk\tools\emulator.exe? Or is my install broken somehow?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 669

Answers (2)

Bitwise DEVS
Bitwise DEVS

Reputation: 3499

To properly answer this question, here is the new documentation

Note: The Android SDK Command-Line Tools package, located in cmdline-tools, replaces the SDK Tools package, located in tools. With the new package, you can select the version of the command line tools you want to install, and you can install multiple versions at a time. With the old package, you can only install the latest version of the tools. Thus, the new package lets you depend on specific versions of the command-line tools without having your code break when new versions are released. For information about the deprecated SDK Tools package, see the SDK Tools release notes.

The old SDK tools setup usually breaks the project since it does not support multiple version where you can rollback when the latest version is broken after updating thus this update was made. The emulator in SDK/tools is no longer needed with the new Android Studio version.

Upvotes: 0

Kerstin
Kerstin

Reputation: 11

I have seen same things in current version of Android SDK Tools. I think emulator.exe under the "tools" folder is for previous versions of Android SDK Tools, see following link https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator.

If you want to use it now only with installed Android SDK tools you have to download it with sdkmanager.

Upvotes: 1

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