How to install APK on Android emulator

1. First, select Settings> Applications> Unknown Sources Checkbox to allow Applications to be installed from non-Android Market channels.

 

2. Add SDK_ROOT to the system environment variable and point it to the tools directory under the Android SDK installation directory.

3. Start Emulator. You can use adb devices to check whether the PC is connected to Emulator. Adb is in the platform-tools subdirectory under the Android SDK installation directory.

List of devices attached
Emulator-5554 device

4. Mount the. APK file installed by the supervisor to the tools directory and go to the tools directory under the command line.

Adb install your_application.apk

For example, install Google voice search (if the downloaded file suffix is .zip, set it to .apk)

C: \ eclipse \ androidsdk \ tools> adb install VoiceSearch_2.1.apk
161 KB/s (442329 bytes in 2.667 s)
Pkg:/data/local/tmp/VoiceSearch_2.1.apk
Success

5. After successful installation, you can display the installed application icon in the Launcher of the simulator.

Author: mapdigit