Note that x86_64 image is only available for API 21+. Target of the system image - default, google_apis or playstore.ĬPU architecture of the system image - x86, x86_64 or arm64-v8a.

23 for Android Marshmallow, 29 for Android 10. Script: echo 'Generated AVD snapshot for caching.'Įmulator-options: -no-snapshot-save -no-window -gpu swiftshader_indirect -noaudio -no-boot-anim -camera-back noneĪPI level of the platform system image - e.g. If: -hit != 'true'Įmulator-options: -no-window -gpu swiftshader_indirect -noaudio -no-boot-anim -camera-back none name: create AVD and generate snapshot for caching macos-latest or macos-10.15 to take advantage of hardware accleration support provided by HAXM.Ī workflow that uses android-emulator-runner to run your instrumented tests on API 29: It is recommended to run this action on a macOS VM, e.g.

Kill the Emulator and finish the action.

Run a custom script provided by user once the Emulator is up and running - e.g./gradlew connectedCheck.

Wait until the Emulator is booted and ready for use.

Launch a new Emulator with the provided configurations.

Create a new instance of AVD with the provided configurations.

Install / update the required Android SDK components including build-tools, platform-tools, platform (for the required API level), emulator and system-images (for the required API level).

This action automates the process by doing the following: You can also achieve this on a self-hosted Linux runner, but it will need to be on a compatible instance that allows you to enable KVM - for example AWS EC2 Bare Metal instances. The macOS VM provided by GitHub Actions has HAXM installed so we are able to create a new AVD instance, launch an emulator with hardware acceleration, and run our Android If you want to learn more about this, here's an article I wrote: Running Android Instrumented Tests on CI. This presents a challenge on CI as to be able to run hardware accelerated emulators within a docker container, KVM must be supported by the host VM which isn't the case for cloud-based CI providers due to infrastructural limits. The modern Intel Atom (x86 and x86_64) emulators require hardware acceleration (HAXM on Mac & Windows, QEMU on Linux) from the host to run fast.

The old ARM-based emulators were slow and are no longer supported by Google. A GitHub Action for installing, configuring and running hardware-accelerated Android Emulators on macOS virtual machines.

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