Next, we need to open the terminal and add two export in the. In the next screen change the AVD Name if you want and click finish. Click on it and then the Next button on the earlier screen. Once the Download is finish, the Finish button will appear. It will take sometime as the file is huge(1 GB). It will open the below screen and download Android image. Click on download for any latest android version.

Then you need to choose an OS from the next screen. Once you click on +Create Virtual Device, you need to choose a device. Take any default setting for a project and then click on the Search icon on the top right corner. In the Android Studio Screen, click on Start a new Android Studio Project. Goto System Settings -> Android SDK and copy the Android SDK location, somewhere. Once the download is complete, you will see the below screen.Ĭlick on Configure and then Preferences from drop-down. On the next screen,it will start the download and will take sometime. On the next screen, select any theme and click Next. Disregard Android Studios warning about your CPU not having vt-d enabled. It will work( crashed the first time for me, but worked afterwards). On next screen choose Standard and click on Next. Open Android Studio (in rosetta, yes), download an ARM64 image from the SDK manager and create an AVD. Now, when you open Android Studio on your mac, it will show below screen. You need to drag Android Studio to Applications Once the dmg file is downloaded, you will get the below screen. It is 724 MB for mac, so will take sometime to download. It’s time to install the Android emulator on my laptop, so that i don’t have to check my phone every-time.įor this we have to install Android Studio 3+ first, so head over to this link or google it and download. I am using the expo-cli to create the project and using my physical Android phone for testing. For the past one month, i have been doing development in React Native.

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