Re: [android-building] Update emulator system.img

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

1) source build/envsetup.sh
2) lunch full-eng
3) # make your source changes
4) make
5) emulator&
6) goto 3

JBQ

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Oyin Oluwatimi
<david.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> this whole semester ive been pulling my hair on why my changes to the source
> code is not reflected in the emulator but it works when i flash the compiled
> code to my nexus device.
> I finally realized that the system.img in source/out/target/product/generic/
> directory is not the image that is used by the emulator. Which is the
> reason why my nexus device reflected the changes because it using the
> generic/system.img. I tried changing the
> .android/avd/<someAvdName>/config.ini file to point to he generic/system.img
> image. But when i run the emulator it says:
>
> emulator: ERROR: This AVD's configuration is missing a kernel file!!
>
> So my question is when you update the source code, how to update the actual
> emulator image?
>
> Thanks
> Damola
>
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Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru
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FWIW I've seen the emulator take the image based on search path order to the android SDK. 

There are arguments you can pass to the emulator to *make sure* it runs the img you want it too.

--mark

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