I am using the emulator that comes with Android Studio and need to past text between my OSX Yosemite machine and an app in the emulator.
I started my emulator with emulator -avd Nexus_6_API_23
I tried long click Command-V it does not paste
I see How can I copy/pate multibyte characters on Android Emulator? and a few others like Paste text on Android Emulator but they seem related to adb and not the new emulator.
Any ideas pls?
Follow these steps for write copied text:
Open Terminal
Write command: adb devices (it will list the device currently connected)
Select Textbox where you want to write text
Write command: adb shell input text 'Yourtext' (make sure only one device is connected to run this command and that you can also use Single Quotes)
Done!
In a terminal, type
adb shell input text 'my string here.'
This work only you have one emulator or one device connected your PC.
I had the same problem - need to copy text from macOS to a Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio. I tried the sms or telnet solutions, they worked but not really well for a large sum of text (e.g. a whole page of text with spaces, line feeds and all kinds of special characters).
Thanks to someone who created an Apple script to force input password into the password field when opening an encrypted volume. That amazing script also solved this problem! And its more straight forward in utilizing this script to copy and paste from Mac to an AVD.
I have the Apple script icon always stay on top of the screen (the status bar) so whenever I need to copy and paste, it is just one click away.
Here is a copy of the script (whoever created this, thank you again!)
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set numbers_key_codes to {82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92}
set input to do shell script "pbpaste"
if (input is not missing value) then
tell application "System Events"
repeat with char in the characters of input
try
key code numbers_key_codes's item (char + 1)
on error
keystroke char
end try
end repeat
end tell
end if
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Just copy the source text, click on the target location in the AVD, and then activate the script by clicking on the script icon, voilà, everything will be pasted like typing automatically!
Be warned that if there’s a huge sum of characters you are copying and pasting, it may take a few seconds for the script to complete the ‘typing’.
There is a tool to execute a command in the adb console to paste when ctrl + v is tapped. Try it out :)
https://github.com/HknCore/AndroidPaster/releases/tag/1.0.0
This feature is just not implemented. You can create a feature request from the emulator's help page
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I have been gettting The emulator process for AVD Pixel_5_API_30 has terminated as an error response trying to open to my emulator how do I fix it?
I was expecting the emulator to popup after I tried creating a new virtual device
go to C:\Users\yourusername.android folder and see if there is advancedFeatures.ini,
if no , just create new txt and then finally save as advancedFeatures.ini in ANSI(not UTF-8).
content as below:
==copy below==
# Here's how to disable Vulkan apps to talk to the emulator.
# Add the following lines to ~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini (create this file if it doesn't exist already):
Vulkan = off
GLDirectMem = on
advancedFeatures
==paste above==
I watch youtube video and this works for API 30 . However, it doesn't work for API 31.
Click on the 3 dots then click on wipe data. Worked for me.
click here to see image
2 case first if you have only one virtual device click on the 3 dots and wipe the data and if you have more then one device delete the other and try wiping the data of one which you want to use
So, I have a custom AOSP image that I'm building, and it allows me to provide my own kernel and debugging features that I want (this is just for the record, because you can't do some things that are needed with a regular AVD). I need to change the contents of /vendor, and I thought that I could do this by providing my .img file to the emulator with:
emulator -vendor /path/to/my/vendor.img
But, as I checked, the md5sum does not match for some files between my vendor.img and in the /vendor/path/to/file when I run the emulator and connect with adb shell. This is perplexing to me, because when I run with -verbose, I can see the arguments given to qemu for the drive and I expect that img to be mounted under /vendor. Looking at the original vendor-qemu.img with 7z, I can check the md5sum of ome files and see that despite the -vendor argument, the sums did not change to the values in my img, but match the old intead. I even went to the length of renaming the original vendor-qemu.img and putting my img in it's place with the name vendor-qemu.img. Same result with the md5sums though.
Perhaps I could be wrong, and the -vendor emulator argument shouldn't change the contents of /vendor in the running emulator instance. What do I do to get the /vendor directory contents of a running emulator instance to match with the vendor.img?
The way I found to do it was to go to:
out/target/product/<lunch tgt>/vendor/
And just put the vendor contents the way you wish them to be. When finished do:
make vendorimage && make systemimage
Is there a way to give an emulator a name in Android Studio?
In the emulator pull-down box in Android Studio, the emulators created from AVD manager are labelled simply: "Android SDK built for x86 (mobile)(emulator-nnnn)", where n is an integer.
If you're running multiple emulators, this isn't very helpful. Is there a way to rename each emulator to something more helpful? For example, when I created each emulator, they have names of e.g. "Pixel 4 API 29", and "Nexus 5 API 24" - why aren't these used?
Update: Two screenshots show what I mean. In the top one, the "Nexus 5 API" has been selected; yet it shows as "Android SDK etc". If I select e.g. "Pixel 4 etc", it shows as exactly the same (it actually has an emulator number added that only shows when you open the pull-down).
Of course you can edit the name of your AVD.
In the AVD Manager, clic on the pen to the right to edit your configuration and then, you can rename your AVD
Edit: There names are correctly shown in the pull-down menu, even if launched
Well what #Bruno said is the easiest way, if it does not work that way you can either try this one, is a little bit tricky though.
In case you use Mac that's an example of how to do it, if you do not use Mac let me know and I'll put the steps to do it on Windows / Linux
Open in Finder
user.name/.android/avd/
Pd: To be able to show the hidden files press ⌘ + ⇧ + .
Find your emulator, in my case I'll show this one :
Open the Pixel_4_API_30_-_Android_11.avd folder (in your case will be different) and open config.ini file and change these two params (AvdId,avd.ini.displayname)
And now restart your IDE and it should be updated.
I'm sure you could change more names, but to ensure the functionality of the emulator, I wouldn't touch too much if you do not know what you are changing.
Let me know if it works :)
You can not change the device name "emulator-nnnn" from Android Studio as that name belongs to the device. This is the name that you see in "adb devices" output.
For a real device, you have to change its name by opening the Settings app from the device.
For an emulator, in theory you can do the same, you open the Settings app inside the emulator when emulator is running. But I haven't tested this because my emulator is very slow.
we are developing an android device. its on android 4.4.2. My issue is that i am getting red frame like strip which occur at different frequencies. some come and go very fast. but some stay for some time.
i tried to remove the strict mode in developer option.
i tried to make persist.sys.strictmode.visual to 0 manually also by setprop.
But the red strips are killing my days.Please help me on this.
Dont put it as duplicate. Because everywhere the issue is solved with strictmode value to 0. But for me that solution is not helping..
I know this is a bit late but you can try this:
ADB into the device
(open command prompt and type "adb shell")
Then type the following commands
setprop persist.sys.strictmode.visual 0
setprop persist.sys.strictmode.disable 1
Once complete, restart the machine. It worked for me using 5.0.0.
I got to know how to copy/paste from command line tool at
Paste text on Android Emulator
adb shell input keyboard text 'foo'
It works very well for ascii characters but it doesn't for multibyte characters.
adb shell input keyboard text 'あ'
Doesn't pass any character to emulator.
adb shell input keyboard text '\u3042'
Shows '\u3042' as it is.
Is there any way to pass multibyte characters to the emulator from command line correctly?
I think there is no way to do what you want.
Digging in the sources, the input command line tool ends up calling KeyCharacterMap.load(KeyCharacterMap.VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD), and uses that KeyCharacterMap to map from characters to keys press / release events.
Since KeyCharacterMap.VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD does not cover the whole Unicode range, it is not possible to generate events for a lot of characters.
The latest Android Emulator (v25.3) can support copying & pasting multibyte characters. This was launched with Android Studio 2.3. Take a look at the screen recording of the behavior below...