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This page provides an archive of Emulator releases. Please review the
license file
in the emulator package for licensing information.
For the best experience, please review the Emulator system requirements.
How to manually install a select version of emulator
To manually install a select version of emulator on Studio, you need to paste the desired
emulator package contents into your SDK installation directory, and change the emulator version
specified in the package.xml file. Specifically, follow these steps:
- Locate your SDK installation directory. The default location of this directory varies by
platform:
- On Windows, it's the
%LocalAppData%\Android\Sdk directory. This normally
expands to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk, although it might
vary based on your system.
- On macOS, it's the
$HOME/Library/Android/sdk directory.
- On Linux, it's the
$HOME/Android/Sdk directory.
You can check where your SDK installation directory is by opening Studio and clicking
Android Studio > Preferences > Appearances & Behavior > System Settings >
Android SDK. The Android SDK Location file path is your SDK installation
directory location.
If you're using macOS and browsing using Finder, the Library folder might not be
visible by default. To navigate there, open Finder and click Go > Go to Folder
and search for "Library."
- Rename the existing
emulator directory in the SDK installation directory, because
you'll unzip the newly downloaded emulator directory here in the next step. For
example, call it emulator_original.
- Unzip the emulator zip file you downloaded. Move the contents into the SDK installation
directory.
On macOS: After unzipping the emulator zip file, clear the quarantine attribute on the
emulator package by running:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine emulator/
This should reduce messages about whether the package should be checked or blocked.
- Paste the
package.xml file from the emulator_original directory into
the new emulator directory.
Change the emulator version specified in the package.xml file to the version you
have downloaded and want to use. To do this, scroll to the bottom of the package.xml
file and find the text that looks like:
<revision><major>31</major><minor>1</minor><micro>4</micro></revision>
This is where you should specify the emulator version you downloaded and want to install.
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