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Re: Updates to the android-emulator

 

On 1 November 2013 06:44, leon lee <llrraa@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Just some queries:
> * adb to ubuntu
> Q: "adb shell" will log into ubuntu?
>

Yes. It takes a while until adb job is started, so check $ adb
devices, until emulator turns to "device". At that point "$ adb shell"
should work.

> * serial console to android
> Q: how to do this?
>

If you use the ./run-emulator.sh wrapper script the terminal where you
run that script will eventually give you android's container shell
prompt.

> * telnet access to control emulated events (sms, gps, etc)
> Q: how to do this?
>

Connect to the port shows in the graphical window title (e.g. 5554)
over telnet and type help for available commands.


>
> It will boot into black screen on the graphical output.
> Q: in graphical mode, is "adb shell" still available?
>

All of the above is always available. Not sure what you mean by
"graphical mode", depending on the flags used the graphical window is
shown / not shown, but other than that it's the same.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.


> ------------------ Original ------------------
> From:  "Dmitrijs Ledkovs"<xnox@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> Date:  Oct 31, 2013
> To:  "ubuntu-phone"<ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> Subject:  [Ubuntu-phone] Updates to the android-emulator
>
> It's now packaged in the archive as android-emulator package.
>
> # in trusty
> $ apt-get install android-emulator
>
> At the moment one can install it as a normal package, but it ( for
> whatever reasons) wants to run with read-write privileges.
>
> So to run it
>
> $ cp -r /usr/share/android/emulator/ ~/
>
> $ cd ~/emulator/
>
> # To download latest ubuntu rootfs and create filesystem
> $ ./build-emulator-sdcard.sh
>
> $ ./run-emulator.sh
>
> To run emulator.
>
> At the moment this should give one:
>
> * adb to ubuntu
> * serial console to android
> * telnet access to control emulated events (sms, gps, etc)
>
> It will boot into black screen on the graphical output.
>
> Things to fix at the moment:
>
> * missing /dev/eth0
> * /data read-only in the android-container
> * no graphical output
>
> If you are not running trusty yet, you can download the latest emulator
> from:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/i386/android-emulator/download
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitrijs.
>
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