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How do you install an APK file in the Android emulator?
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I am using windows 7. One of my client gave me a apk file to see a previous project developed by another developer. But I have no android phone. So I want to install that apk file to my AVD device of my android sdk. But I am fail. Please give me details instruction how to install apk file inside AVD device of Eclipse(Android SDK). I am using windows 7.
The command is:
adb install app.apk
If you want to install it over an existing installation, you will need:
adb install -r app.apk
This will only work if the installed app and the new app.apk file are signed with the same signature. Otherwise you'll have to uninstall the existing app first.
Make sure that you have [android installation]\platform-tools on your PATH. If you don't want to modify your PATH, use the full path to adb in the command line. For example:
c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\adb.exe install app.apk
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I have installed Android Studio in the F:\ drive. My Flutter project is in the E:\ drive.
The Flutter plugin is installed in the Android Studio. But when I open my project in Android Studio and I go to the SDK Manager, it shows the following error:
The android sdk location cannot be at the filesystem root
Every package is disabled and the checkboxes are disabled, so I cannot click them to install Android SDK. The "Edit" link next to the error is not working either.
I came with the same problem because of forgetting "sudo"
Using the new android studio (bumble bee version) .
Restart the app and make sure you have an internet access
That will be enough to create the SDK and it’s directories
Just press Edit ( It is clickable) then download and install the required components.
Download the SDK first, and restore the default settings.
You can find the "Restore default settings" feature here.
What you can do is that you click on edit to surely you will get some version of Android that installs it by default and you click on next it will open another configuration verification window and you click on the next one for last it will tell you or It will update the version of android that was downloaded by default and you click again to finish and you can just select other versions of Android. That worked for me. Linux Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
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Ready!!
For me it was the system language on Windows, I have changed it to English and it worked.
TL; DR
Make sure:
Your user has write permission into Android SDK directory.
ANDROID_HOME is correctly defined with the correct SDK location.
Description
IMHO it is a really bad practice install SDK into user home directory because:
Packages added will be restricted to a single user.
System administrators won't be able to mirror OS images, thus each engineer will have to install SDK manually.
The old school way is according to Linux directory hierarchy as described at The Linux Documentation Project, which consists on:
Ensure your user has adm privileges
Export SDK environment variables
Obey the filesystem hierarchy, installing the IDE and SDK into /opt
The steps above work perfectly on Ubuntu 22.04 and shall work on other distros with minor adjustments.
1. Ensure your user has adm privileges
grep adm /etc/group | grep ${USER}
adm:x:4:syslog,ventura
lpadmin:x:122:ventura
2. Configure environment variables
/etc/profile.d/
├── ...
├── android.sh
├── ...
├── java.sh
└── ...
where android.sh contains
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/google/android/
export FLUTTER_HOME=${ANDROID_HOME}/flutter
TOOLS=${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools
TOOLS=${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools:${TOOLS}
export PATH=${FLUTTER_HOME}/bin:${TOOLS}:${PATH}
and java.sh your JRE directory
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-18-openjdk-amd64
3. Install Android Studio and Android SDK
Download latest Android Studio and unpack it into /opt/jetbrains/:
VERSION=2021.2.1.16
sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/android
sudo mkdir -p /opt/jetbrains/studio
# Unpack Android Studio into a versioned folder
tar -xvzf android-studio-${VERSION}-linux.tar.gz
sudo mv android-studio /opt/jetbrains/studio/${VERSION}
# Grant write permission to administrators
sudo chown root:adm -R /opt/jetbrains/
sudo chmod g+w -R /opt/jetbrains/
sudo chown root:adm -R /opt/google/android
sudo chmod g+w -R /opt/google/android
Finally launch Android Studio and choose the SDK location:
This approach is extremely powerful because it allows system administrators duplicate development workstations using rsync -avz without relying onto any username or custom privileges.
I searched for many hours for an answer to this
I reinstalled:
I opened a new folder called Android in C:
Into it I reinstalled the android studio
You have created a new SDK folder within it
Then in the blank path, I entered C: \ Android \ sdk
And that's how it all worked.
Try it!
You can clear invalidate caches and restart android studio like follow picture:
Then start download sdk files :)
Make sure that your internet is working and try to close VPN connections if you have any. Then restart Android Studio and hope for the best.
To solve this issue, I had to close Android studio entirely. When I started the application again, it detected that it had a missing SDK problem and then went ahead with the installation process for it.
Your country should not be among the sanctioned countries (using VPN).
Android Studio by Run as Administrator open.
Download : Android SDK and Android SDK Platform.
Fix error: the android sdk location cannot be at the filesystem root.
For test The VPN is working properly.
Open website : https://developer.android.com/
this is the best solution to this error which is just under any drive you have on your laptop which C:// open a folder called "Android" and under the android folder open a folder called "sdk" and change the sdk file path to this recently created folder. That's All.
I want to download and install / remove APKs in background programmatically on a google glass device.
Steps i already tried:
Move APK to /system/priv-apps
Try to sign the APK with the system signature (I don't know if I signed it with the correct one)
Set the android sharedUserId to "android.uid.system" -> this gave me a permission error while installing
Can anybody help me getting my App signed by a system signature? I really do not want to code a shell script running on each boot..
I am also getting the following error while trying to exec the
pm install -r APK_PATH
command programmatically:
Error running exec(). Command: [su] Working Directory: null Environment: null
Please help me! :-)
According to this documentation, be noted that the APK needs to meet the following criteria:
It must be zip-aligned.
You must not make any changes to the package name or private signing key after this (the Android package manager does not allow upgrades if either of these changes).
It must be smaller than 50 megabytes.
It must be compiled using the latest version of the GDK.
To sign the APK based from this thread,
On top of signing Android 1.6 for Dream with certificates generated by
myself, I've also managed to sign my app with the platform certificate
and run it with the system sharedUserId. These are the steps I took:
Build and flash to your Dream your own Android using http://source.android.com/documentation/building-for-dream. Use the
mkkey.sh script on
http://pdk.android.com/online-pdk/guide/release_keys.html to create
new certificates, including x509 certificates before you do 'make'.
In the AndroidManifest.xml of your application: under the <manifest> element, add the attribute android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system".
Export an unsigned version of your Android application using Eclipse: right-click on the project >> Android Tools >> Export
Unsigned Application Package.
Use <root-of-android-source-tree>/out/host/<your-host>/framework/signapk.jar to sign your app using platform.x509.pem and platform.pk8 in <root-of-android-source-tree>/build/target/product/security
generated earlier:
java -jar signapk.jar platform.x509.pem platform.pk8 YourApp-unsigned.apk YourApp-signed.apk.
Install the app to your device:
adb install YourApp-signed.apk
Run your app
Use adb shell ps to confirm that your app is running as system.
Check these related forums:
How to sign Android app with system signature?
How can I sign my application with the system signature key?
Hope this helps!
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unable to execute adb in Ubuntu. Downloaded file is meant for x86-64 while I have i686 [duplicate]
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I'm trying the simplest of the tasks, which is the "hello world" tutorial of Android Studio. I'm on a 32bit Ubuntu (14.04) and I downloaded Android Studio today.
I got blocked when I try to run it, since adb isn't responding:
com.android.ddmlib - Unable to detect adb version, adb output: /home/me/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb: 1: /home/me/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
When I tried to run adb by hand I discovered that it's not 32 bit while I'm on a 32 bit platform. "file adb" returns:
adb: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=[something], not stripped.
Did I miss some step where I could have picked the platform? Everyone seems to have the opposite problem, platform 64bit vs. file 32bit.
The official site give you a download binary that should configure and setup the required adb on your system, but i am guessing it is still setting up x64 version of adb on your system.
Since the site in itself doesnot list the x86 version, you have to look into the archived section. Do the following
Download the x86 version for Linux platform and install it.
Update your .bash_profile with the exported path pointing to the new location of adb.
Restart terminal and use adb.
I have been sent an android app to test. I saved the apk to my desktop, but now I don't know what else to do. How do I import it into androis studio? I know this is a very basic question but please be detailed, thank you.
Connect your android device (or start an emulator), go to the command prompt, change directory to where the apk is, and enter adb install apkname
Please follow the below steps to install apk file.
1.First run the emulator.
2. open the sdk specified path and find the platform tools folder.then copy the apk file and store it inside the platform-tools folder.(G:android-sdks\platform-tools).
3.open the command prompt and change the directory to android-sdks/platform tools.
4.enter the command : adb install apkfile name.
5.if you are getting success in command prompt the apk was sucessfully installed in your emulator..
Can I run an APK file in the Android emulator? I have to look at the UI design of an application, but only the apk is provided.
Assuming you have an emulator created and started (which you can do with the AVD manager,) you can install an apk by running:
adb install WhateverApp.apk
from the terminal. The adb command comes with the SDK and is under platform-tools/. Then just run it in the emulator.
Yes you can run apk in the emulator . for that you need to install apk in emulator ..
Steps To Install APK in Emulator
Open Command Prompt
Now Go to tools or platform-tools . Ex(E:\android-sdk\tools)
Then type this command adb install [apk file name whenever it stored]