With HTML, CSS and Javascript, it is lot of easier compared to using Java and XML based design on Android. I mean on the web you only need Google chrome browser to make beautiful user interface, so flexible and easy. Mobile development UI is not that much complicated compared to web development, it is just either, Java, Swift, or Flutter, there are not as good. You don't need to bot write Java code for android and Swift code for IOS, you only need dart codes, which is the language that flutter use. With just single code base, you can package your app for bot Android and IOS, it is such a life safer. If you want to develop multi platform mobile app, Android or IOS, you can use flutter framework. Make sure you already have Android studio, it is already bundled with Android SDK, emulators and and the tools you need from creating a starter Android project (the project structure), writing your logic codes, designing the user interface, and compiling it to APK or AAB so you can upload and publish your app to Google PlayStore.Īctually you can just download the SDK without the Studio or IDE, but sometimes Android studio can be really helpful for lot of thing, it make easier for example create new emulator and managing the existing emulator, like wipe the emulator cache, adding more virtual external storage on that emulator. Now run the emulator with this commandĮmulator Change according to your emulator name After adding the path, now open terminal and execute this commandsģ.

Make sure ANDROID_SDK/emulator is in your environment path, this path contains emulator.exeĢ. Follow these steps below to launch mobile emulator from command line without opening Android Studio.ġ. You can run mobile Android emulator from command line on windows, or terminal in Linux and Mac OS. Whenever you need an emulator either for development process of mobile app, or you just want to explore it.

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