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Accessing file explorer without having a android studio project

I have a flutter project that i created and manage with vscode.
I now need to access some files on my android emulator.
Everything i read online references the File Explorer tool in android studios.
However, i am not using android studios and i dont have a android studio project.
The only way i see at the moment is to abandon using vscode and recreate my project using android studios then using the file explorer from there...
However, this seems silly and excessive... i am sure there is someway i can access the file on my emulator without having to trow vscode in the trash.
Any ideas?

You can't access emulator's file system from VS Code as of now. If you don't want to use Android Studio then an alternative way is to use ADB Shell.
Here are the commands that you can use to interact with the File System of your emulator.
adb pull - To copy a file or directory and its sub-directories from the Android device
adb push - copy local files/directories to Android device
adb shell ls- List Files and Directories
adb shell cd - change directory
adb shell rm - rm is a command-line utility for removing files, directories and symbolic links
adb shell mkdir - make directories
adb shell touch- the touch command is a standard command used in UNIX/Linux operating system which is used to create, change and modify timestamps of a file
adb shell pwd - printing the current working directory
adb shell cp - copy files and directories
adb shell mv - moves files or directories from one place to another
For a detailed example please visit ADB Shell.

Redirect output to file and terminal using ADB

Basically this question only using ADB
How would I write to a txt file and the terminal at the same time.
/system/bin/sh: tee: not found
Would I be stuck cross-compiling tee for the device?
Sidenote: I am using Cygwin and Win10 so that could be part of it.

Android emulator "adb push" not working (No such file or directory)

I'd like to open local web pages on an android emulator, so I created an emulator API 14 (Android 4.0) and I launched it from the AVD manager.
Next step: move my files from pc to emulator and open it in a browser. That's the problem...
I'm trying the following commands:
adb push C:\My\local\directory sdcard
adb push C:\My\local\directory /sdcard
adb push C:\My\local\directory /mnt/sdcard
adb push C:\My\local\directory /storage/sdcard
The result is always the same:
push: C:\My\local\directory/subdirectory/file2.txt -> sdcard/subdirectory/file2.txt
failed to copy 'C:\My\local\directory/subdirectory/file2.txt' to 'sdcard/subdirectory/file2.txt': No such file or directory
If I run the shell I can see the sdcard folder:
C:\Users\me\Desktop\and-s-ws\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
# ls
ls
acct
cache
config
d
data
default.prop
dev
etc
init
init.goldfish.rc
init.rc
mnt
proc
root
sbin
sdcard
sys
system
ueventd.goldfish.rc
ueventd.rc
vendor
# cd sdcard
cd sdcard
# ls
ls
Any help?
Thanks
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Finally I understood the problem was the sdcard permissions. I changed the read-write permissions following this steps in the adb shell:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19221592/2090803
After that, the adb push command worked fine:
adb push C:\My\local\directory /sdcard/myFolder
The adb automatically created the new folder myFolder and pushed correctly the directory and all the subdirectories and files.

I think the problem is destination path. you should add / to beginning of your destination path. Try this:
adb push C:\My\local\directory\file.txt '/sdcard/path'

I think the problem is the folder structure. The folders have to be there before you start to copy because adb can't create them.

try this it worked for me:
adb push "local path" sdcard/

creating adb pull bash command

When I run below command directly on prompt, it works fine by pulling all files from emulator sdcard:
adb -s emulator-5556 pull /sdcard/.
However when I create bash file (extract.sh) with above command and run it I get following error:
remote object 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/sdcard/' does not exist
As can be seen it somehow adds C:/Program Files (x86)/Git before it. These are the contents of bash file:
#!/bin/bash
adb -s emulator-5556 pull /sdcard/.
Does anyone have an idea of why it works when direcly typing on prompt and not via bash file ? Thanks

Is there any reason you're not specifying the destination directory? For example, the batch command I use when pulling pictures from my phone over USB is adb pull "/sdcard/DCIM/Camera" "E:\Phone Pics\HTC DNA" which specifies both the source directory on the phone and the destination directory on my computer. As a side note, like enedil I recommend using this in a batch file when working in Windows.

Failed to push to SD card [duplicate]

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Android+Eclipse: Can't push files to SD Card [duplicate]
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I am using windows vista on which I installed android. I created an sd card file(.img extension). When I tried to push a file to it through ddms, it showed that 'Failed to push' . Also I could see that the permission parameter was set as d-----. How to reslove this issue. Thanks in advance

Once you started the Emulator from one shell, login to another shell & type
adb shell
You should see # prompt displayed, this is your device(emulator) shell. Now , type following command at adb shell.
mount -o remount rw /sdcard
This will now remount /sdcard with rw(read-write) permission & now you can push your files into /sdcard by using following command from your host shell.
adb push filename.mp3 /sdcard, where filename.mp3 could be any file that you want to push into Android Emulator.