Essential Guide to Setting up Emulators- ABNHive

An Android emulator is an Android Virtual Device (AVD) that represents a specific Android device. You can use an Android emulator as a platform to run and test your applications on your PC.

Installing Emulator on PC

Steps are given below

1. Open SDK Manager from Android Studio, click Tools > SDK Manager.
2. Click SDK Tools section
3. Click to tick Android Emulator and Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator - HAXM Installer (If available)
4. Click OK Button
5. Wait to complete download
6. It will automatically download Android Emulator

Creating AVD

After downloading the Emulator we need to Create AVD (Android Virtual Device). 

1. Click Tools > AVD Manager.
2. Click Create New Virtual Device Icon
3. Now choose device 
4. If a download option is there, just click to download Device Image
5. Configure Device
6. Now Android Studio creates AVD
7. Click the green icon to run Emulator

- Aswin Bhim Nath