Running Android emulator from command line

example.sh

$ apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
$ wget https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
$ tar xvf android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
$ cd android-sdk-linux/
$ tools/android list sdk --all --extended
$ tools/android update sdk --all --no-ui --filter sys-img-x86_64-android-22,platform-tools,android-22,sysimg-22 # android 5.0.1
$ tools/android list targets
$ tools/android create avd --name test --target 1 --abi default/x86_64
$ tools/android avd -list-avd # these bits don't work. Need tidying up. Trying to list available avds that you just created
$ tools/android avd -u -list-avd
$ tools/./emulator64-x86 -avd test -no-window
$ platform-tools/adb tcpip 5555

# Get copy of what's on screen, for processing

$ platform-tools/adb shell uiautomator dump /data/screen.xml
$ platform-tools/adb pull /data/screen.xml