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

to list the emulators you have

~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/emulator -list-avds

for example, I have this Nexus_5X_API_24

so the command to run that emulator is

cd ~/Library/Android/Sdk/tools && ./emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_24