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
if you installed Git on your system. then you can run .sh bash code. I create the bash code for search from your created ADV Devices and list them. then you can select the number of adv device for run emulator without running Android studio.
link: adv-emulator.sh
note [windows os]: please first add %appdata%\..\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator
to your system Environment path, otherwise the bash-code not work.