This page provides an archive of Emulator releases. Please review the
license file
in the emulator package for licensing information.
How to manually install a select version of emulator
To manually install a select version of emulator on Studio, you need to paste the desired
emulator package contents into your SDK installation directory, and change the emulator version
specified in the
package.xml
file. Specifically, follow these steps:
- Locate your SDK installation directory. The default location of this directory varies by
platform:
- On Windows, it's the
%LocalAppData%\Android\Sdk
directory. This normally
expands to
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
, although it might
vary based on your system.
- On macOS, it's the
$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
directory.
- On Linux, it's the
$HOME/Android/Sdk
directory.
You can check where your SDK installation directory is by opening Studio and clicking
Android Studio > Preferences > Appearances & Behavior > System Settings >
Android SDK
. The
Android SDK Location
file path is your SDK installation
directory location.
If you're using macOS and browsing using Finder, the
Library
folder might not be
visible by default. To navigate there, open Finder and click
Go > Go to Folder
and search for "Library."
- Rename the existing
emulator
directory in the SDK installation directory, because
you'll unzip the newly downloaded
emulator
directory here in the next step. For
example, call it
emulator_original
.
- Unzip the emulator zip file you downloaded. Move the contents into the SDK installation
directory.
On macOS: After unzipping the emulator zip file, clear the quarantine attribute on the
emulator package by running:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine emulator/
This should reduce messages about whether the package should be checked or blocked.
- Paste the
package.xml
file from the
emulator_original
directory into
the new
emulator
directory.
Change the emulator version specified in the
package.xml
file to the version you
have downloaded and want to use. To do this, scroll to the bottom of the
package.xml
file and find the text that looks like:
<revision><major>31</major><minor>1</minor><micro>4</micro></revision>
This is where you should specify the emulator version you downloaded and want to install.