How to open Android Emulator from CMD

Android studio consumes high ram, no imagine using it with vs code opened in the background and few chrome tabs running

• And all we need is android studio for emulator when we use react native like work enviornment

• hence i found a solution on internet for this exact headache

• To avoid high ram usage while we run the vs code for react native and when we want to try our app on a device virtually follow these instructions:-

For Windows Users

• Open Notepad

• New file

• Copy the next lines into your file:

     cd /d C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\emulator 
     emulator @[YOUR_EMULATOR_DEVICE_NAME]
  

  Notes:

• Replace [YOUR_EMULATOR_DEVICE_NAME] with the device name you created in emulator

• To get the device name go to: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\emulator

• Run cmd and type: emulator -list-avds

• Copy the device name and paste it in the batch file

• Save the file as emulator.bat and close

• Now double click on emulator.bat and you got the emulator running!