Manually Put Files to Android Emulator Sd Card

Manually put files to Android emulator SD card

If you are using Eclipse you can move files to and from the SD Card through the Android Perspective (it is called DDMS in Eclipse). Just select the Emulator in the left part of the screen and then choose the File Explorer tab. Above the list with your files should be two symbols, one with an arrow pointing at a phone, clicking this will allow you to choose a file to move to phone memory.

How to copy files to Android emulator instance

You can use the ADB via a terminal to pass the file From Desktop to Emulator.

adb push <file-source-local> <file-destination-remote>

You can also copy file from emulator to Desktop

adb pull <file-source-remote> <file-destination-local>

How ever you can also use the Android Device Monitor to access files. Click on the Android Icon which can be found in the toolbar itself. It'll take few seconds to load. Once it's loaded, you can see a tab named "File Explorer". Now you can pull/push files from there.

Getting files on to an Android emulator and calling them from Java

If you want to have the files within your application, you can put them in the assets/ folder of the root directory of your project (create it if it doesn't exist).

From there you can access them with the AssetManager class

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/AssetManager.html

You can use the SD card as well, here is explained how to get files onto the enulators SD card

Manually put files to Android emulator SD card

Here is the documentation on how to access the data afterwards

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal

In AVD emulator how to see sdcard folder and install an APK to the AVD?

  1. switch to DDMS perspective
  2. select the emulator in devices list, whose sdcard you want to explore.
  3. open File Explorer tab on right hand side.
  4. expand tree structure. mnt/sdcard/

refer to image belowSample Image


To install apk manually:
copy your apk to to sdk/platform-tools folder and run following command in the same folder

adb install apklocation.apk


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