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What this does is emulates the mobile operating system, or at least a portion of it, through a software program that’s capable of running Android.Įverything is contained within the emulation software.
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You can run Android on Windows with an Android emulator. For those who are wondering, there are numerous reasons why you might want to use an Android emulator on your Windows PC.
Thanks for reading this article.If you’re looking to run Android on your Windows PC, there’s no shortage of emulators available today. So, that’s how you setup an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM on VMware Workstation Pro for developing Android apps with Android Studio. Select the AVD that you just created and click on OK.Īs you can see, the Hello World app is running on the AVD. Once the installation is complete, click on Finish.Īn Android Virtual Device (AVD) should be created. The Android System image should start downloading. Now, click Download on the version of android you want to use for testing. Now, select a virtual device where you want to run your application for testing purpose and click on Next. Once the project is ready, click on Tools > AVD Manager. The project will take a while to be ready. Select Empty Activity from the Phone and Tablet section and click on Next. In this section, I will run a create a new Android project, create an Android Virtual Device (AVD) and run a simple Hello World application on the AVD.įirst, start Android Studio and click on Start a new Android Studio project to create a new Android project. From now on, you can start Android Studio from the Application Launcher of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.ĭeveloping A Simple Android App on the VM: It will take a while to complete.Īndroid Studio should start.
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It’s up to you.Īndroid Studio will download and install Android SDK Tools. You may or may not wish to share data with Google. Once Android Studio is installed, click on Launch.Īndroid Studio is starting as you can see. Type in the password of your login user and click on Authenticate.
Now, open Ubuntu Software Center from the Application Launcher. Once your VM starts, make sure the main, universe, restricted, multiverse repositories are enabled. $ reboot Installing Android Studio on VM:
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Once the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system is installed on the VM, you have to install KVM and Open VM Tools.įirst, update the APT package repository cache as follows: The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installer should start. Now, select the VM you just created and click on Power on this virtual machine. Now, click on Close.Ī new VM should be created. The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ISO image should be selected. Now, select the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ISO image file and click on Open. Now, click on Browse... from the CD/DVD (SATA) section to select an installation ISO image. Now, assign at least 2 cores of your processor to the VM and enable the virtualization engine for the VM. Set VM disk size (I recommend 100 GB at least) and select Store virtual disk as a single file. Type in the name of the VM, select a location where the files will be saved and click on Next >. Now, select Linux as the Guest operating system and Ubuntu 64-Bit as the Version. Now, select I will install the operating system later and click on Next >.
#RUN ANDROID EMULATOR ON MAC OS X FROM VMWARE HOW TO#
In this article, I am going to show you how to setup an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS virtual machine (VM) on VMware Workstation Pro for developing Android apps with Android Studio.