Developer can choose a version of the standard Android platform or the system image packaged with an SDK add-on.
For example, developer can define whether the device has a camera, whether it uses a physical QWERTY keyboard or a dialing pad, how much memory it has, and so on. A hardware profile: Defines the hardware features of the virtual device.Developer can also start the AVD Manager from the command line by calling the androidtool with the avdoptions, from the/tools/ directory.ĭeveloper can also create AVDs on the command line by passing the androidtool options. The easiest way to create an AVD is to use the graphical AVD Manager, which developer launch from Eclipse by clicking Window > AVD Manager. An Android Virtual Device (AVD) is an emulator configuration that lets developer model an actual device by defining hardware and software options to be emulated by the Android Emulator.
