Meteor Android Virtual Device

[Omar Lamarca]

Hi,

I want to change the AVD on my meteor Android Emulator, because i can only open android 4.4 and i would really like to design my app using 5.0 Lollipop.

If you could give me some clues or advice it would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Omar. 

[Justin Santa Barbara]

Hi Omar,

So if you want to run against a custom AVD (e.g. running Android Lollipop), you can "export METEOR_AVD=myavdname".  We will not create the AVD for you when you specify a different name (as we figure that's the whole reason you're specifying a different name!)

To create your own AVD, it is probably easiest to download and install your own copy of the Android SDK.  (https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=i; you probably want 'SDK Tools Only' from the 'View all downloads and sizes' section).

Once you have installed the SDK, create a Lollipop AVD using "android avd".  If you're on a mac, keep the RAM allocation to less than what you installed the HAXM accelerator (I recommend 1024MB).

Finally, "export USE_GLOBAL_ADK=t" and then try "meteor run android".  This should use your Lollipop AVD.

A deeper question is what you're actually trying to do.  Are you trying to use a Lollipop specific API?  Presumably that would be through a Cordova plugin and - to be honest - I'm not quite sure how that works.

Let us know how it goes!

Justin