An Android Virtual Device (AVD) is an emulator configuration that lets you model an actual device by defining hardware and software options to be emulated by the Android Emulator.
-The easiest way to create an AVD is to use the graphical AVD Manager, which you launch
- from Eclipse by clicking Window > AVD Manager. You can also start the AVD
-Manager from the command line by calling the android tool with the avd
-options, from the <sdk>/tools/ directory.
The easiest way to create an AVD is to use the graphical
+ AVD Manager, which you launch
+ from Android Studio by clicking Tools > Android > AVD Manager. You can
+ also start the AVD Manager from the command line by calling the android tool with
+ the avd options, from the <sdk>/tools/ directory.
You can also create AVDs on the command line by passing the android tool options.
- For more information on how to create AVDs in this manner, see Managing Virtual
- Devices from the Command Line.
An AVD consists of:
diff --git a/docs/html/tools/devices/managing-avds-cmdline.jd b/docs/html/tools/devices/managing-avds-cmdline.jd index ba353c1538daf..c16b1f85e6a25 100644 --- a/docs/html/tools/devices/managing-avds-cmdline.jd +++ b/docs/html/tools/devices/managing-avds-cmdline.jd @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ id: 5 or "android-9"In addition to creating AVDs with the -AVD Manager user interface, +
In addition to creating AVDs with the
+AVD Manager user interface,
you can also create them by passing in command line arguments to the android tool.