google android emulator console

Each running emulator instance includes a console facility that lets you dynamically query and control the simulated device environment. Connect to the console by the following command:
# telnet localhost 5554
If you have multiple emulator started, subsequent console port is 5556, 5558, etc.

In the current release, the console provides the following commands:

• help|h|? ;print a list of commands
• redir ;manage port redirections
• network ;manage network settings
• gsm ;GSM related commands
• sms ;SMS related commands
• kill ;kill the emulator instance
• quit|exit ;quit control session

For more details of the console commands usage, refer to the Google Android Emulator documentation.

About Google Android Emulator

At the very beginning, google released google android SDK, it is running on the emulator. There is no hardware.

The Google android emulator is included in the google android sdk. So far google provides three platforms sdk, they are windows, Mac OS X (intel), Linux (i386). The emulator is in the tools folder: emulator.

The google android emulator is based on the qemu, which is a open source. Google makes some changes based on the qemu 0.8.2. The source code is also available. With the emulator source, you can make any changes you want, and replace the original one to look for information you want. One command to compile the emulator source code: build-emulator.sh

Available links:

1. Google android sdk
2. Google android emulator source package
3. Qemu open source