As Appium learning needs to install some mobile apps for testing, here's a brief introduction to the installation and uninstallation of applications in the Android simulator.
First, you need to download the application to test the APK file, here to YY voice for example, after downloading the apk file in the%android_home%\platform-tools directory.
Then open the Android emulator, open a command prompt, enter the%android_home%\platform-tools directory, enter the command "adb install yy.apk (the name of the APK file you want to install)", wait a moment to appear the following prompt, Description The application was successfully installed in the emulator.
Now go back to our simulator and you'll see an extra yy app icon
At this point, an application is installed on the Android emulator.
Below we say how to uninstall the application in the Android Simulator, the Desktop program "Settings"--"Application"-Select the application to uninstall, click, and then force stop-Uninstall, you can uninstall the program.
Install and uninstall APK files on Android emulator