Pre-requisites and Initial Setup

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Post Android Studio Installation

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Local Paths

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• Once you have completed your "Android Studio" installation, you will have default paths as

  • Windows

    • Default Path where new AVD's are created : %USERPROFILE%\.android\avd
    • Default Path for "Android SDK" : %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk
    • Default Path for "ADB" : %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk\platform-tools
    • Default Path for "Emulator" : %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk\emulator

  • Linux : Linux doesn't have an installer. It's just a "tar.gz" file which needs to be extracted

    • Default Path where new AVD's are created : $HOME/.android/avd
    • Default Path for "Android SDK" : $HOME/Android/Sdk
    • Default Path for "ADB" : $HOME/Android/Sdk/platform-tools
    • Default Path for "Emulator" : $HOME/Android/Sdk/emulator

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Installing and adding ARM Image

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• With Android Studio before '4.1.1' version, we can get the system image for "Android 9.0" which supports ARM libs out-of-the-box

• This has been removed from latest Android Studio Version (Not sure WHY????? - It was very useful) 😭😭😡😡😡😡😡

• So, you can download it from here : "Android v9.0 - Google X86_ARM Intel x86 Atom System Image"

• Then you need to manually onload the image to create an emulator. You can visit this site for reference : "Android SDK Offline" 😍😍😍

• You can also use "Android v11.0" if you are interested in ARM support as "Android v11.0" comes with ARM libs pre-installed out-of-the-box

  NOTE : Make sure that you always use system-images with "Google API's" rather than "Google Play Store" images as they are production builds and google doesn't like that to be rooted 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️😈😈

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Creating Android Emulator

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• When you open "AVD Manager" to create an emulator, you need to use "v9" image as shown below to create the emulator

  

• You can also use "Android v11.0" "Google API's" image for Android Pentesting as this one also supports ARM libs

• Better to visit my GitHub page: "RASEv2" or "RASEv1"

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Rooting Android Emulator

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• There are a lot of hiccups when you want to root the emulator as there is a change in filesystem from "Android v9.0" and above
• Best and easy way is to use the script I wrote : "RASEv2"
• You can use this to root AOSP Android Images from Android v6.0 and above

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