In AVD emulator how to see sdcard folder? and Install apk to AVD?

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Trikaldarshiii picture Trikaldarshiii · May 21, 2012 · Viewed 117.2k times · Source

I have created an Android emulator (Android Virtual Device), but I am unable to find out the SD card I have built during creation of this.

How can I find the SD card and its content and also how to install APK files to the AVD?

Answer

N-JOY picture N-JOY · May 21, 2012
  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/

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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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