Copying files off/onto an AVD

In your upcoming adventures with the Android platform, you may want to at some point copy things off your Android devices, whether they are emulators or not. Copying files is pretty simple. All you need is the following:

  • A connected device you'd like to have
  • A file you'd like to copy off/on
  • A place you'd like to put this file in

How to do it...

To access files on your Android device using the ADB, you need to do the following:

  1. It's actually pretty simple to do this. You'll need to fire off the following command from your command-line interface:
    adb {options} pull [path to copy from] [local path to copy to]
    
  2. To copy files onto an AVD, you can use the following command:
    adb {options} push [local path to copy from] [path to ...

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