Then you need to choose an OS from the next screen. Once you click on +Create Virtual Device, you need to choose a device. Take any default setting for a project and then click on the Search icon on the top right corner. In the Android Studio Screen, click on Start a new Android Studio Project. Goto System Settings -> Android SDK and copy the Android SDK location, somewhere.

Once the download is complete, you will see the below screen.Ĭlick on Configure and then Preferences from drop-down. On the next screen,it will start the download and will take sometime. On the next screen, select any theme and click Next. On next screen choose Standard and click on Next. Now, when you open Android Studio on your mac, it will show below screen. You need to drag Android Studio to Applications Once the dmg file is downloaded, you will get the below screen. It is 724 MB for mac, so will take sometime to download. It’s time to install the Android emulator on my laptop, so that i don’t have to check my phone every-time.įor this we have to install Android Studio 3+ first, so head over to this link or google it and download. I am using the expo-cli to create the project and using my physical Android phone for testing.

For the past one month, i have been doing development in React Native.

Open android emulator in mac