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iwex
iwex

Reputation: 393

Android Emulator (AVD) on DigitalOcean (etc.)

Is it possible to install Android SDK and Emulator on some VPS (digitalocean, google cloud, amazon aws etc.) then run some emulated phone on it and connect to it from any remote PC (using some VNC or another remote access software)? As a result - I can have access to some virtual phone from any point of the world?

I need to open specific apps that are available only on Android phones, but I don't want to run it on my own computer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3912

Answers (2)

user1892364
user1892364

Reputation: 269

You can try the Genymotion Cloud Image for AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01MREUQPU

Upvotes: 1

gokhan
gokhan

Reputation: 667

If your purpose is running test or building packages at cloud, I think you can do it, firstly you should install android sdk with required versions, after that you need to create the headless emulator.

For example if you decided to run the tests on amazon ec2, you can follow two steps

Firstly install android sdk from the command line:

ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/android-sdk
ANDROID_VERSION=26 
ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION=26.0.2

mkdir $ANDROID_HOME .android \
    && cd $ANDROID_HOME \
    && curl -o sdk.zip $SDK_URL \
    && unzip sdk.zip \
    && rm sdk.zip \
    && yes | $ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses

To create the headless emulator, you can follow the instruction from

Upvotes: 0

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