I downloaded an AVD out of android studio, now I want to use it in it, how can I do that?
the link I downloaded is:
https://https:/dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-26_r10.zip
Thank you
after extracting your sys-image..go to your sdk folder find system-images, then create a folder of the image and paste it in there i.e mine is
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\system-images\android-26
Okay the process of installing an externally downloaded system image is not super complex and #whack_panther had the idea right.
To make everything work with an external installation you do need to unzip the x86 folder from the downloaded system image to:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\system-images\android-26\google_apis
In order to find this folder in Windows ensure that you have your hidden folders visible.
The download you provided is API-26 and the Release name is O, keep this in mind because this is where I ran into confusion at first as I already had many sys-images downloaded on my system for development purposes.
What I did:
I removed all of my downloaded system images and then placed only the new system image from link you provided in the directory listed above to ensure we were looking at the same data. When I did this, the only available system image that would not require an additional download when I attempted to create a new AVD from the AVD Manager GUI located under “Tools” in the Android Studio menu was:
Release Name: O | API Level: 26 | ABI: x86 | Target: Android 8 (Google APIs)
Which is the system image downloaded from the link you provided.
Then set everything up as usual with your externally downloaded system image using the prompts in the AVD Manager and you should be good to go. Also note that here I was required to create a New Hardware Profile to enable the option to use the newly downloaded system image, I would bet this is because there are settings in the download that do not apply to the built-in hardware profiles
One note: The folder you provided appears to have variations already available from Android Studio so I would suggest looking through the options in the AVD manager before you stick with the idea of downloading external images for these purposes, doing so is obviously supported but it may not be needed so there is no reason to make things more challenging for yourself unless it is completely necessary.
Extract the zip at below location :
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-26
Go to AVD Manager and refresh the system image page. It will be detected/
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Good day,I'm a student and I'm trying to create a virtual device in Android Studio, however my home internet is too slow to download a System Image, there is an internet cafe near me that has very fast internet and I plan to download the System Image there by accessing in my browser this link : https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-25_r08.zip
From this message in the window where Android Studio downloads the System Image for Android Nougat
To install:
- Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image (system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86)
Preparing "Install Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image".
Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-25_r08.zip
However I do not know how to install it in android studio. How am I able to install it myself on android studio and make an emulator?
Many thanks.
In windows: First locate your android-sdk. By default it's in your C:\Users\Your.name\AppData\Local\
in it's root folder. where you can find: SDK Manager.exe, make a folder name it "system-images", my api 25 image is at system-images\android-25\google_apis\x86_64\Files
Hope you can Figure it out. Comment if you have any problem.
In mac OSX:
~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-[API_VERSION]/[API_TYPE]/x86
Replace [API_VERSION] with Android version you are downloading and the [API_TYPE] can either be google_apis_playstore or google_apis depending on whether the image you are downloading comes with Google Play or not.
On Windows 10:
Download the file from e.g.:
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-27_r09.zip.
Extract the zipped file.
Copy (OR Cut, not recommended) the contents of the extracted folder e.g.: x86.
Find the android-sdk folder. By default, it should be located at C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk.
Look for a folder named system-images. Create system-images if it doesn't exist. Depending on the file you downloaded, create
subfolders within system-images. E.g.:
system-images->android-27->google_apis.
Paste within google_apis.
Restart Android Studio and the system image should be selectable.
Shout if you need any further assistance.
FOR WINDOWS:
To get the exact path of the system-image, try to download from android studio first, after 1% download, stop the download and go to your sdk path.
E.g. C:\Users\TBR\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk, you will see a folder name "system-images"
this folder was created from the part download, open the sub-folder till you get to the last sub-folder.
E.g. C:\Users\TBR\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-27\google_apis\x86
i.e x86 is last sub folder (delete any content in this last sub-folder)
Download the system images manually, unzipped and copy the whole content, then paste it into your last sub-folder.
Download link for android-27 - https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis_playstore/x86-27_r03.zip
Go back to android studio and you will see the system-image there now.
For Windows 10:
Download the file from e.g.: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-27_r09.zip. or Any other System Image
After Completion of Download
Extract the zipped file.
Copy extracted folder e.g.: x86.
Find the android-sdk folder. It is located at C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\
Find the folder system-images. Create system-images if it doesn't exist.
Create subfolders within system-images. E.g.: system-images/android-27
Check in link, if it has google_apis or google_apis_playstore:
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86-27_r09.zip.
or
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis_playstore/x86-27_r09.zip.
Paste within google_apis if link has google_apis or Paste it in google_apis_playstore folder.
The Complete path of system image file :
C:\Users\{Your UserName}\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-30\google_apis\x86
or
C:\Users\{Your UserName}\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-30\google_apis_playstore\x86
Restart Android Studio and the system image should be selectable.
============= Good Luck ❤❤❤ =============
I have faced the same issue when manually installing an android-wear image. For android-wear images the directory structure looks like this.
<your_android_sdk_location>/system-images/android-<version>/android-wear/<extract_downloaded_android-wear_image_here>
example: For this wear image https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-wear/x86-28_r03.zip
<your_android_sdk_location>/system-images/android-28/android-wear/x86
Don't forget to restart the Android Studio!
Actually, if you extract downloaded zip archive, system will never find it.
You have to click in 'Download' tag, then in folder
%ANDROIDSDK%/system-images/android-25/
^^^ version of SDK you use
if google-api then additional folder 'google_apis' will be created .install file with the path, where archive is located.
Usually it is
C:\Users[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Temp\PackageOperation01
Put there your zip archive and go to Download link again.
After that, it will not start download, but will start to check and unzip operation.
This resolves offline installation issue.
find the logfile for the android device manager (on my machine it was here: C:\Users(user name)\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Logs\16.0). At the end of the logfile (named like 2021-07-21_16-03-19.18380.devicemanager.log), you'll see it reference a path it's trying to download from and to. Here's what my log message looked like:
[21-07-21 21:03:29.66] [ProgressMonitor] Step "Downloading Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image v9" did begin for AVD: pixel_2_pie_9_0_-_api_28, totalWork: 918028186
[21-07-21 21:03:29.67] Downloaded file '<USER_HOME>\AppData\Local\Temp\xamarin-android-sdk\x86-28_r09.zip' not found for Android SDK archive 'https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis_playstore/x86-28_r09.zip'
[21-07-21 21:06:08.50] [ProgressMonitor] downloading did report error with exception: System.TimeoutException: The operation has timed out. AVD Name: pixel_2_pie_9_0_-_api_28
So I went to the https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis_playstore/x86-28_r09.zip link and manually downoaded the file and copied it to <USER_HOME>\AppData\Local\Temp\xamarin-android-sdk\x86-28_r09.zip and clicked retry from the failed attempt inside the android device manager, and voila, it worked after 2 days of messing around with it.
For me the problem was that currently Android Studio doesn't list older system images (older than 29) in the "Create Device" wizard, and that even if the relevant system images have been downloaded already.
The workaround I found was to download system images and create emulator devices from the command line. This works even if you don't have the Android Studio - you just need the Android SDK installed.
To download a system image, go into the directory where the Android SDK is installed (by default this is at ~/Android/SDK on Linux), then in your terminal type: ./cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager --list - this will list all the available system images, even very old ones (I see the oldest SDK is 10). They should have the path (the text in the first column) labeled with this format: system-images;android-<sdk-version>;<type>;<architecture> (there are also other stuff aside from system images, lets ignore these for now).
To download the system image you want, type ./cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager --install "<path>" where "<path>" would be the first column from the available package list from the step above.
Then to create an emulator virtual device for this image, use the command line as well: type ./cmdline-tools/latest/bin/avdmanager create avd -d <device-type> -k '<system-image-path> -n '<device-name>', where:
"<device-type>" would be the name of the device you want to emulate, for example "pixel_4a" to emulate a Pixel 4a - use avdmanager list device to get the list of devices.
"<system-image-path>" would be the same path you used to download the system image, for example system-images;android-23;google_apis;x86_64.
"<device-name>" would be whatever name you want to be shown in Android Studio's "Device Manager" view.
For example: ./cmdline-tools/latest/bin/avdmanager create avd -d pixel_4a -k 'system-images;android-23;google_apis;x86_64' -n 'Pixel_4a_API_23'
If you had Android Studio running while doing all of that, you'd need to stop and restart it. If you want to copy the created files to another machine, you'd need to copy your entire Android SDK installation directory (or possibly only the "system-images" folder inside the SDK installation directory) and also the content of the Android SDK AVD configuration directory - if you created any AVDs - this would be ~/.android/avd under Linux.
Go to the AVD Manager in Android Studio (it is in the toolbar and looks like a tablet with an Android on it), then click on "Create Virtual Device" once a window called "Android Virtual Device Manager" pops up. Next, choose the device you want to pick, and then click "Next". You will then be able to download a system image.
I have been trying to download a system image for AVD in android studio. in the sdk manager. But it is painfully slow for some reason. It shows in log that it is downloading from a specific link, so I went ahead and downloaded that via some other tool.
Now my question is, now that I have downloaded the zip. How do I make it so that the SDK manager will look up a local resource instead of the remote image?
Moving the extracted folder into ANDROID_SDK_HOME\system-image\android-25\ does the trick.
due to IT restrictions I cannot use to package-install-automation of the Android SDK.
To be able to create an emulator in Androids' AVD manager, I first of all need a system image for my target device.
But regarding the below screenshot I haven't installed any.
So can anyone tell me:
1. where to get an system image for Android 6.0 API Level 23
2. how to install this system image manually/offline
Thank you in advance!
Firstly select the system image to be downloaded in android studio sdk, then it will start downloading the image and will say Downloading from <url>. Copy that URL and download from some download manager like IDM and after downloading, extract the files in system-images folder.
The directory structure pattern is sdk-folder/system-images/android-<api_number>/google_apis/x86 (or armeabi-v7a).
So, extract in correct pattern and then open the android studio sdk, you will see that the package is installed.
Now, you can make a virtual device from the downloaded system image.
SDK manager does not work for you?
In any case, there are several sites which can be used to download Android SDK system images:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191210131925/http://ady.my/viewer/system-image/
http://www.hariadi.org/android/manual-download-of-android-sdk-components/
Or alternatively Hard way :
for Windows, using the SDK Manager,
First make sure you have download caches enabled,then fetch/reload the packages. Then go to My Computer and open folder .android: =>
C:/Users/your_username/.android/
(Make sure you have enabled "show hidden files" option)
In there try to locate several xml file in cache dir. Those xml files contains URLs and other data of all the sdk package. Every package available in sdk manager can be downloaded through appropriate URL from there.
Open XMLs in IE and try to find what you need. Then you can use URLs from there and you're good to go.
Hope this helps
you can follow this link for manually installing the System Images for emulator, i just installed Android 6.0 (sysimg_x86-23_03) so that i can still render Marshmallow layouts in Eclipse.
These are the sites from where you can download them offline.
Mostly you will require Intel x86 System image or Intel x86_64.
First, but on this site every version of System image is most recent so you can download :
Intel x86-23_r0X from here (Revisions are from 03 to 09)
Intel x86_64-23_r0X from here (again, Revisions are from 03 to 09))
Hope i helped those who are looking for solution for older Intel System Images for Android 6.0.
For those with difficulty in finding the correct path to install. The path will depend whether the image is a playstore image or not.
You can figure out by looking at the images download link:
If the download link is inside the folder google_apis, e.g:
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/<api-file-name>.zip
Your folder structure should look like:
sdk-folder/system-images/android-<api_number>/google_apis/
But if the download link is inside the folder google_apis_playstore, e.g:
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis_playstore/<api-file-name>.zip
Then your folder structure should look like:
sdk-folder/system-images/android-<api_number>/google_apis_playstore/
I installed Android Studio (1.5.1 -- see image for build details).
While installing I chose the custom option so I could install a specific path.
I knew that my %SystemDrive% was pointed at a network location and I wanted to install to my local disk.
So, this means that by default, the application would've installed to :
\networkpath\users\myUserName\Android\SDK
However, since I chose the custom installation I chose a local path:
c:\users\myUsername\Android\SDK
Project Creation and Build Work Fine
Everything seemed to install fine and I was able to create a new project and build it with no problems.
However, when I attempted to run the built and then basically failed silently.
The emulator never appeared and no error occurred.
Android Monitor just shows a message stating that No Connected Device detected.
AVD Manager
Luckily I knew a bit about checking to see what happened with the emulator and I opened up AVD Manager.
The listed device displayed an error.
I right-clicked the device and chose "View Details".
That's when the AVD manager showed that it is attempting to read from the network path, even though I changed this in the custom installation.
\networkPath\Users\myUserName\Windows.android\avd\Nexus4.avd
and
\networkPath\Users\myUserName\Windows.android\avd\Nexus4.ini
Registry Edit
I closed Android Studio. Then I opened regedit and edited the values at:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
which originally looked like the following:
And changed them so they all point directly to the c:\ drive (instead of %systemdrive%)
Environment Variable : ANDROID_SDK_HOME
I found that others have mentioned the ANDROID_SDK_HOME environment variable and I noticed that my machine doesn't have that value defined at all so I added it and set it up like the following:
c:\users\myUsername\Android\SDK
I then started Android Studio again and started the AVD Manager.
This time there were no devices show, but instead AVD Manager prompted me to create one with the following window:
Now, I'm attempting to download one of the devices with Google APIs, but each time I do, they download and install successfully, but then disappear from the list. Notice, in the next image there are not API Level 15 or 16 with Google APIs for arm architecture.
Notice additionally that there is one listed for API Level 17 with arm.
I will now attempt to install that one.
You can see that it downloaded successfully and installed fine.
Now, I click the [Finish] button.
The item no longer appears in my list.
The API Level 15 item is chosen automatically. I'm assuming because that one was downloaded originally when I installed Android Studio.
Finally, if you uncheck the [ ] show downloadable system images checkbox -- which is terribly confusing -- and I'm assuming shows you the ones you've already downloaded, then you'll see that it only shows the one API Level 15 virtual device.
This is all quite terrible. Has anyone seen this problem?
Has anyone else been able to fix it?
I'm assuming that I'll just have to go and do a complete re-install of Android Studio.
You should look in the idea.properties file in your project (Android Studio path to different directories). It sounds like this is set to override the system's settings.
EDIT 2 With Final Solution
Thanks to an alert and astute SO post-er (code-apprentice) I was able to get to a solution.
Here's what I had to do.
create idea.properties file and place it at the \networkLocation\myUserName\.Android 1.5\
place the two lines in it which point to my local disk
idea.config.path=C:/Users/myUserName/.AndroidStudio1.5/config/
idea.system.path=C:/Users/myUserName/.AndroidStudio1.5/system/
Then I started Android Studio again and I attempt to install a system image which included the Google APIs.
It worked and it was added to the list:
However, it still did not show the other API LEVELS which I had installed before (15, 16, etc).
Deleted Them From Disk
I noticed that they had been located in a local folder at :
%userprofile%\Android\SDK\add-ons
for whatever reason.
I deleted all of the folders under that path and the original APIs with Google choices appeared in my list again. See highlighted item in image.
SOLUTION
Now when I install them they show up in the list and I can create new AVDs based upon them. Everything works.
EDIT
I used a tool I wrote to watch where Android Studio wrote to disk and I found a path that reveals the problem:
Even though I've made extensive changes to insure the installation would install completely on my local disk, Android Studio saves some (a lot) of data out to this path.
I did a Google on : .AndroidStudio 1.5\config\
That led me to the following documentation:
http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/configuration
There, you will see that the installation should be using %userprofile% to determine where it writes this data. My %userprofile% points to my local disk (c:\users\myUserName) but Android Studio still insists on writing data out to the network.
Here's the important information:
Windows:
%USERPROFILE%\.{FOLDER_NAME}\studio.exe.vmoptions
and/or
%USERPROFILE%\.{FOLDER_NAME}\studio64.exe.vmoptions
%USERPROFILE%\.{FOLDER_NAME}\idea.properties
I deleted the remote .Android Studio 1.5 directory and copied it to my %userprofile% (local) directory. Then I restarted Android Studio and it thinks that it needs to generate all that again because it wants to place it at the remote directory again.
Core issue:
Obviously, it is not using %userprofile%
It gets worse.
I uninstalled the application and all of the settings (supposedly).
Then I installed the entire thing again and it looked as if it were choosing the correct installation path by default:
But, when I started Studio back up then it opened up the project I had created with the first install.
Plus, I still cannot see the API image that I supposedly installed before. Only that one image. Nothing else.
This is really not a great installation system. I'm working on a book which helps beginning Android Devs but if they fall into this problem loop there is no way to get them out of it with a good running emulator.
Very unfortunate.
Download the respective SDK and API levels and Image Systems on Android SDK Manager.
And then they'll show up normally on AVD.
I'm new in android developing. I use Android Studio 1.2. It's making some large size folders in C:. C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\AndroidEmulator is about 5 GB. Can I delete or move the file. Or how can I change this path to another drive?
I am answering it based on Android Studio.(v1.5.1), Windows 10.
Most of those temporary files are copies of your app that is installed to your emulator. And some are because of the packages you add to your app using gradle.
Even when your emulator starts it creates a file of more than 1.3GB which disappear when you close the emulator.
About deleting the files. Yes you can delete those files and still able to do every thing you are doing, you can see all installed apps in your emulator and run them for test.
I suppose these are system image downloading.
If you do not need emulator, these files are useless to you. You can remove them through SDK Manager.
If these files remain in Temp, just delete them
By the way,to move your temp folder : http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Location-of-the-Temp-Folder-in-Windows-7
In Custom Installation option, you will have option to place Studio and AVD manger on other Locations whichever you prefer.