Enable hardware acceleration for Android SDK emulator in linux

I’m really don’t know Hardware Acceleration works or not.

Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install -y qemu-kvm libvirt-bin ubuntu-vm-builder bridge-utils

$ sudo adduser <user> libvirtd
$ sudo adduser <user> kvm

Check if everything is ok:

$ sudo virsh -c qemu:///system list

More information:
http://blog.whitehorses.nl/2015/03/07/enabling-hardware-acceleration-for-android-sdk-emulator-on-linux/

Android SDK installation

$ cd /tmp/
$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/android-sdk/

$ wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz

$ tar -xvzf android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz
$ cd android-sdk-linux/
$ sudo mv * /opt/android-sdk/

I do some changes to store environment variables in .bash_profile (like as on RedHat Deistributives)

$ vi ~/.bashrc

############################################################
# To use .bash_profile file for env variables in ubuntu
. ~/.bash_profile
############################################################

$ vi ~/.bash_profile

#### ANDROID SDK #######################

    export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android-sdk/
    export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools

#### JAVA SDK #######################

$ source ~/.bash_profile

$ sudo chown -R <user> /opt/android-sdk/

$ android

I’m installing all packages for API 22

To update packages execute next command

$ android update sdk --no-ui

Android Studio Installation

$ cd /tmp/
$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/android-studio/
$ sudo chown -R <user> /opt/android-studio/

$ wget https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/1.2.1.1/android-studio-ide-141.1903250-linux.zip

$ unzip android-studio-ide-141.1903250-linux.zip

$ cd android-studio/
$ mv * /opt/android-studio/


$ vi ~/.bash_profile

#### ANDROID STUDIO #######################

    export ANDROID_STUDIO_HOME=/opt/android-studio/
    export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_STUDIO_HOME/bin

#### ANDROID STUDIO #######################

$ source ~/.bash_profile

To run android studio

$ studio.sh

Run Virtual Android Device

$ android avd

Create AVD

How to run Android emulation on ubuntu linux

Use Host GPU is very important for hardware acceleration

How to run Android emulation on ubuntu linux

Some commands (Yes, i love work in command line)

$ android list avd
Available Android Virtual Devices:
    Name: Nexus_5_by_Google
  Device: Nexus 5 (Google)
    Path: /home/marley/.android/avd/Nexus_5_by_Google.avd
  Target: Android 5.1.1 (API level 22)
 Tag/ABI: default/x86_64
    Skin: 1080x1920

$ emulator -avd Nexus_5_by_Google

With next paramters:

$ emulator -avd Nexus_5_by_Google -scale 0.3 -gpu on -qemu -enable-kvm

I get next result (In the future i’m planning to start emulation with this parameters):

More Parameters:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/emulator.html

// To faster kill emu

$ adb emu kill

// Get list devices

$ adb devices
List of devices attached
R32D103PK8K	device
emulator-5554	device

// Open command line on android device

$ adb shell
$ adb -s emulator-5554 shell

// Get file with database from virtual android device

$ adb -s emulator-5554 pull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db /data/contacts2.db

// Logs

$ adb logcat
$ adb -s emulator-5554 logcat

// sqlite3 databases on android devices:

127|root@generic_x86_64:/ # ls -R /data/data/*/databases

/data/data/com.android.deskclock/databases:
alarms.db
alarms.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.email/databases:
EmailProvider.db
EmailProvider.db-journal
EmailProviderBody.db
EmailProviderBody.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.inputmethod.latin/databases:
pendingUpdates
pendingUpdates-journal
pendingUpdates.com.android.inputmethod.latin
pendingUpdates.com.android.inputmethod.latin-journal

/data/data/com.android.keychain/databases:
grants.db
grants.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.launcher/databases:
launcher.db
launcher.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.providers.calendar/databases:
calendar.db
calendar.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases:
contacts2.db
contacts2.db-journal
profile.db
profile.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.providers.downloads/databases:
downloads.db
downloads.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases:
external.db
external.db-shm
external.db-wal
internal.db
internal.db-shm
internal.db-wal

/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases:
settings.db
settings.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases:
HbpcdLookup.db
HbpcdLookup.db-journal
mmssms.db
mmssms.db-journal
telephony.db
telephony.db-journal

/data/data/com.android.providers.userdictionary/databases:
user_dict.db
user_dict.db-journal

# qlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db

sqlite> .tables
_sync_state               phone_lookup              view_data_usage_stat
_sync_state_metadata      photo_files               view_entities
accounts                  properties                view_groups
agg_exceptions            raw_contacts              view_raw_contacts
android_metadata          search_index              view_raw_entities
calls                     search_index_content      view_stream_items
contacts                  search_index_docsize      view_v1_contact_methods
data                      search_index_segdir       view_v1_extensions
data_usage_stat           search_index_segments     view_v1_group_membership
default_directory         search_index_stat         view_v1_groups
deleted_contacts          settings                  view_v1_organizations
directories               status_updates            view_v1_people
groups                    stream_item_photos        view_v1_phones
mimetypes                 stream_items              view_v1_photos
name_lookup               v1_settings               visible_contacts
nickname_lookup           view_contacts             voicemail_status
packages                  view_data