We start AVD in Emulator to test our Android App. AVD Manager is basically a tool that you can use to create and manage AVD (Android Virtual Devices) for the Android Emulator. It is also called Emulator.
- OPEN Android Studio Select Tools -> Android -> AVD Manager -> Click the AVD Manager icon in the toolbar. You can also open AVD Manager directly by clicking the AVD icon in the Toolbar.
- Android Virtual Device Manager will be opened. After that Click on Create Virtual Device.
- After that choose the Category, phone size and choose the pixels according to your requirement. After this click on the Next button.
- After that choose the SDK Version and Click on the Next button. If you have various SDK Versions like 11, 12 and 10 etc in your SDK then you can select one of them.
- Enter the AVD Name in Android Virtual Device and click on the Finish button. Here you can do customization to AVD which you are creating as per your requirement.Click Finish and a new AVD will be created.
- Now again open AVD manager and you will see your newly created AVD (Android Virtual Device) is added to the list.Click to Start the Virtual Device green play button
- After that, your AVD will start in Emulator. Now you can run your App in this AVD.Drag and drop the app from System to Simulator to install it.
Look below video to understand the whole process in detail:
