Ios Emulator File System On Your Mac

I use the iOS Simulator and AVDs (Android Virtual Devices) heavily, and was getting frustrated with the need to manually launch the two from Xcode and Android Studio, respectively. So I spent a little time setting up commands that let me launch these tools from my terminal. I named them ios-simulator and android-emulator, and here’s what they look like in action. In this article I’ll walk through how you can set up these commands on your own machine. Launching Android AVDs As part of the you get a command-line tool called emulator, which is the Google-blessed way to work with AVDs from the command line, and which has that let you do a wide range of things. The first option you’ll want to know is -list-avds, as it lists all AVDs you currently have configured.

For example, here’s what that command looks like when I run it on my Mac. Once you have an AVD’s name, you can start up that AVD with the emulator command’s -avd option. For example here’s how I run my Nexus 5X AVD using the emulator command.

One important note: when you run the emulator command with the -avd flag, the process that controls the AVD remains active in your terminal — meaning, you are unable to type subsequent commands without killing the AVD. You could open a new terminal tab or window to avoid this, but you could also try appending a & to the end of the command, which is a.

With the addition of an ampersand, the AVD will run in the background and you’ll regain control of your terminal. NOTE: • The [1] 4168 bit you see above is a process id, which you can safely ignore. If you’re really curious, you can. Docker for mac slow start. • Even though the emulator process will now run in the background, the process can still interrupt your terminal to show output from time to time. You can safely use Ctrl+C to regain control without killing the AVD. But if this becomes too annoying you can always switch to running the emulator command without the ampersand, and just give the process its own tab or window in your terminal.

At this point you’re now able to successfully launch Android AVDs from your command line. The full workflow is: 1) use emulator -list-avds to see a list of your current AVDs. 2) use emulator -avd to launch the AVD. I wanted to simplify these two steps into one, because I do the vast majority of my development on a single AVD. Therefore, I created an alias in my ~/.bash_profile file that lets me launch my preferred emulator using a single command. Alias android-avd='emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_24 &' NOTE: Aliases are shortcuts you can use to avoid typing long or complicated commands. If you haven’t used aliases or opened your ~/.bash_profile file before, here’s a you might find useful.

And with that, you can now type android-avd in your terminal to open an Android AVD. With Android out of the way, let’s move on to take a look at how iOS simulators work. Launching iOS Simulators Much like Android, there are a lot of different ways you might want to launch iOS simulators from the command line. The simplest is to use your Mac’s open command to start the Simulator directly from the file system.

That approach looks like this.

IOS iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator. ( ish.app ) submitted 2 months ago by speckz.