Run AVD Emulator without Android Studio

Question

is there a way to run the emulator without starting the Android Studio first. Perhaps from the command line. I know that this feature was available in older versions and has

Answer 1

Open your terminal and

cd path_to/Android/Sdk/emulator

And run the following to get the emulator name that you created before using android studio

./emulator -list-avds

Replace $emulator_name with the one you want to launch and run

./emulator -avd $emulator_name