I want to make two emulators use the same SD-Card image. I automatically created a SD-Card in the first emulator and downloaded all the data to this SD-Card.
How can I load this SD-Card in another emulator? I don't want to recreate all the data on the SD-Card for every single emulator all the time.
Got it.
The android tools create an .android folder in your users home folder. This folder contains an avd folder in which a separate folder for each virtual device exists. In each of this folders a file called sdcard.img should be present. This file contains the automatically created sd card image for this AVD.
the path usually is /mnt/sdcard
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I can't find the folder containing videos and pictures on my tablet using the file explorer of Android Device Monitor.
The folder I'm trying to find is "Internt lager" which translates to internal storage in english:
I can expand all folders in the device monitor file explorer without finding my movie files, image files, downloaded files, etc. If I try to pull storage/self/primary for instance, I get an empty folder.
I know the storage/emulated folder is a symbolic link, but I need to find out where it points to, so that I can open my files in my app.
I have created an app which lets the user save an image to the sd card, but I cannot see it in the gallery app on my emulator. I'm not sure if I need special code for this or what but I need to be able to find it so that I can see if my code actually works.
I need to be able to find it so that I can see if my code actually works.
If your ultimate objective is to see the files on the SD card, then that can be achieved in several ways:
Use file explorer that comes bundled in Android Debug Monitor.***
Login to device/emulator shell, adb shell, and navigate to SD card folder (that's usually at /sdcard or /mnt/sdcard) and use ls command to list the contents.
Install/use one of many available file explorer apps and navigate to SD card through the device/emulator UI.
***Example:
Launch the ADM by running monitor command (if the SDK tools is not in your path, then first navigate to tools/ directory).
There will be several perspectives: LogCat, Threads, Heap, etc. You need to switch to File Explorer tab.
Above is File Explorer view for Galaxy Nexus, the actual path for SD card may differ for your device/emulator.
You need to add the File to the media Library look at the MediaScannerConnection. You will need to call the ScanFile (after connected) and then the image will be added to the gallery.
while creating AVD what is the use of File: in SDcard generally we will choose size:
what is file:
This is option is for using an existing SD card file, if you have one. For example, you can create two emulators sharing an SD card image. Hope this helps.
This input requites the path of the file which is made by tool mksdcard which is used to create a blank FAT32 image to be used with the Android emulator. This file will be mounted in emulator as external media storage.
From my application I am downloading a few files and storing it in data/data/package_name/files folder and I'm accessing and viewing those files and I download that file once and each time I run application.
I could view that file as the data is persistent in data/data/package_name/files folder so it is not lost when session ends.
All this I am doing in the emulator. Now I have created an .apk file of my application and installed it on a real device. I am expecting that the "data/data/package_name/files" is also packed up with it but which is not happening. I can't see the downloaded file.
As my problem is that I could not connect to Internet from my real device, I could not download file. Is there any way that I could create an .apk file along with the data in "data/data/package_name/files"?
save these files in assests folder, instead of saving in your app memory space, it will not go with your apk.below link will help you in the same storing file in assets which will go with apk
If you just want copy that file to your device during testing. You can upload the file from PC to mobile device by DDMS tool.
Choose the DDMS View from Eclipse, then click the icon of 'Push a file onto the device' on the tab of 'File Explorer',then select the file from the open dialog. That's all.
Using the emulator, with external storage attached, I would like to emulate what happens when the application starts up and certain files are already present in the relevant directory on ext storage.
Is the external storage actually located on my machine, after enabling it in the AVD? Or should I be creating the files with some temporary, throw away code? Or should I just test on a real device?
What is best practice for this scenario?
The sdcard.img is in the avd folder (~/.android/avd). If you are using Linux or OSX you can mount it, manipulate the files inside, and unmount it.
Probably there's a program in Windows that let you do the same.
As an alternative, you can start the emulator and then manipulate the sdcard content using adb push/pull or DDMS.
The easiest way of creating the SDCard contents, would be to create the files that you need on your machine and then using the DDMS Perspective in Eclipse you can select your emulator in the Devices panel on the left, and then choose the FileExplorer tab on the right. There is a folder named sdcard which contains the SDCard contents.
By using the controlls on the right upper-side you can create folders inside the SDCard and by you can also Push files on the emulators SDCard.
As #dtmilano said, you can also achieve the same thing using Command Prompt.