Handy bash script to prompt for an Android virtual device (AVD) selection and launch it. Assuming that Android SDK has been set up and is in user PATH.

avd.sh

emulator -list-avds | cat -n
printf "Select AVD: "
read index
avd=$(emulator -list-avds | sed "${index}q;d")
echo "Selected $avd"
emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd $avd

how to use this? :s

Thank you so much...

I found this to work for me. If you don't want to add Android SDK to your path. I also added "&disown &exit" to close the terminal window without closing the emulator.

  cd $HOME/Android/Sdk/tools
  emulator -list-avds | cat -n
  printf "Select AVD: "
  read index
  avd=$(emulator -list-avds | sed "${index}q;d")
  echo "Selected $avd"
  emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd $avd &disown &exit

Thanks for posting this it was very helpful!

Thanks! This helped a lot!

Thanks @hidroh for the original script and @MouseZero for the modified script :)

it's work for me perfectly, so thanks for your code.

pushd ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools
./emulator -list-avds | cat -n
printf "Select AVD: "
read index
avd=$(emulator -list-avds | sed "${index}q;d")
echo "Selected $avd"
./emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd $avd
popd

I need change your code @Alex1a

pushd ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools
./emulator -list-avds | cat -n
printf "Select AVD: "
read index
avd=$(./emulator -list-avds | sed "${index}q;d")
echo "Selected $avd"
./emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd $avd
popd

I create a project in Github for maintainer my modification of script, thanks to @Alex1a and @hidroh

Thank's !

Thank's !

now the Open Avd is support to Windows, Linux and MacOS

I was facing an issue while running the script: "Could not launch '/Users/<redacted>/Library/Android/sdk/tools/../emulator/qemu/darwin-x86_64/qemu-system-aarch64': No such file or directory". I'm using macOS.

Then I found out that recent versions of the Android SDK, the emulator tool has been moved out of the tools directory to its own emulator directory at the same level as tools. I had to modify the script to navigate to ${ANDROID_HOME}/emulator instead of ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools.