Rework Android Emulators and such

[bramus]

Install required stuff

Android Tools

brew install --cask android-platform-tools
brew install --cask android-studio

Questions / 2check

• Android Studio really needed?
• What about former android-ndk and android-sdk that were installed?
• And what about java8 which me might need for building?
  • On https://dev.to/0xdonut/how-to-install-flutter-on-macos-using-homebrew-and-asdf-3loa I read:

    brew install android-sdk
    brew install android-studio
    brew install haxm
    brew install --cask adoptopenjdk8

Specific SDKs

sdkmanager "platform-tools" "extras;intel;Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager" "emulator"

(Questions: Long ago I also installed "platforms;android-25" "build-tools;25.0.3" which is needed for building. I see that "build-tools;28.0.3" is still installed on my system too …)

Create Android Emulators

@ref https://gist.github.com/mrk-han/66ac1a724456cadf1c93f4218c6060ae

(Android 9, Chrome 69)

sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-28;google_apis;x86"
echo "no" | avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name "pixel_9.0" --device "pixel" --package "system-images;android-28;google_apis;x86" --tag "google_apis" --abi "x86"
alias pixel_9.0='emulator @pixel_9.0 -no-boot-anim -netdelay none -no-snapshot -skin 1080x1920'

(Android 10, Chrome 74)

sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-29;google_apis;x86"
echo "no" | avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name "pixel_10.0" --device "pixel" --package "system-images;android-29;google_apis;x86" --tag "google_apis" --abi "x86"
alias pixel_10.0='emulator @pixel_10.0 -no-boot-anim -netdelay none -no-snapshot -skin 1080x1920'

(Android 11, Chrome 83)

sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-30;google_apis;x86"
echo "no" | avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name "pixel_11.0" --device "pixel" --package "system-images;android-30;google_apis;x86" --tag "google_apis" --abi "x86"
alias pixel_11.0='emulator @pixel_11.0 -no-boot-anim -netdelay none -no-snapshot -skin 1080x1920'

Connect Hardware Keyboard to Emulators

@ref https://coderwall.com/p/i2heaw/enable-hardware-keyboard-input-in-android-emulators

Edit all avd configs and add hw.keyboard=yes to them.

One-liner:

for f in ~/.android/avd/*.avd/config.ini; do echo 'hw.keyboard=yes' >> "$f"; done