[Android] How to Install APK Files on an Emulator

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Mon, September 30, 2013

Here’s how to install APK files on an Android emulator.

First, start the Android emulator from Eclipse or another development environment.

The command to install an APK file is “adb install path_to_APK_file”.

% adb install ~/Downloads/myapp.apk 
2427 KB/s (34093911 bytes in 13.715s)
  pkg: /data/local/tmp/myapp.apk 
Success

That’s all you need to do to install an APK file on the emulator.

Reference Information

That’s all from the Gemba.