CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
user1007590
user1007590

Reputation: 13

How to launch an existing app in Android emulator?

I have the code.google.com Android SDK, am able to launch the emulator and created a v3.0 object and its started and runs fine, but am just trying to "install" and launch an existing application. its a database viewer with a .apk extension. I have the source, but right now to start its a compiled app.

How is this done?

thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 883

Answers (1)

Yevgeny Simkin
Yevgeny Simkin

Reputation: 28349

fire up your emulator (it has to be running when you do this), then open Terminal and type

>adb install your_program.apk

You have to cd over to the directory where the file is, first.

(the > is the terminal prompt... not a character you should be typing)

oh, and if you then want to uninstall it, you can do it right through the emulator, of if you know the actual package name you can then do it like...

>adb uninstall com.full.package.name

Oh, and I guess I'm giving mac advice cause I'm on a mac... if you're on a PC you'll use the command prompt... I'm assuming the rest is the same.

Upvotes: 4

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