Installing an apk on android emulator on Mac OS

android macos emulation apk
TruthOf42 picture TruthOf42 · Jul 31, 2012 · Viewed 50.4k times · Source

I tried following these steps(from here):

go to sdk folder, then go to tools.
copy your apk file inside the tool directory
./emulator -avd myEmulator
to run the emulator on mac 
./adb install myApp.apk
to install app on the emulator

But when I run "./emulator -avd phoneEmulator" (phoneEmulator is the name of my emulator) it just displays:

Phil-Knights-MacBook-Pro:tools philiplknight$ ./emulator -avd phoneEmulator
2012-07-30 22:44:33.377 emulator-arm[2859:80b] Warning once: This application, or a
library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. 
Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz.

It's as if that command is never returning.

If I can't input the 2nd command ./adb install myApp.apk in that window, where do I call it?

Answer

Kirit Vaghela picture Kirit Vaghela · May 15, 2013
  1. Open Terminal
  2. go to android-sdk-mac\platform-tools
  3. type ./adb install myApp.apk

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