Installing an Application on Android Using the Emulator
You can launch an emulator from the Package Explorer view to install the final binaries for Android on an Android device. The device must either be a physical device that is connected via USB to your machine. Or it can be an Android Virtual Device (AVD) that you configured in Android Studio. For more information, see
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.
Note:
You must specify the path to the default Android SDK that you want
Mobile Development to use to compile mobile applications for Android devices. You can either configure the
ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environment variable as described in
https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/variables. Or you can configure the
android.bin.dir.root property in the sdk.properties as described in
Using webMethods Mobile Designer,
Configuring Mobile Designer for the Android SDK.
To install an application on Android
1. In the Package Explorer view, locate the respective .apk file.
2. Right-click, and select Mobile Tools > Run in Emulator from the context menu.
3. In the List of Devices and AVDs dialog box, select a physical device or an AVD, and click OK.
The application is installed on your Android device or AVD and displayed in the emulator.
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