Quick Guide to transfer data files or folders from your desktop pc to android emulator device

By AkshatApp.com | Blog Admin

🗓️ Nov 26, 2019

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Simply Drag-n-Drop your files anywhere into the android emulator device.

This is a built-in feature of android emulator device. This is very helpful and saves a lot of time while developing apps.


Drag-N-Drop Files into Emulator

Your files will be copied to /sdcard/Download folder


File added to Download folder

You can also share folders along with your files.


Drag-n-Drop Folders in Emulator


Folder added to sdcard

Folder added to Download Folder

This is the simplest way to share files and folders between your desktop and android emulator.

Bonus Tip : While developing android apps, you can also quickly test your debug version apk using this drag-n-drop feature. APK’s will be installed automatically.

In this demo, we have dropped our sample flutter app debug-apk file into the emulator device.

Note :

Only debug-apk will be installed in the emulator.
release-apk will not be installed due to security.


Drag-N-Drop Flutter APK


APK installed automatically

Tap your app launcher icon to test your app. This is the simplest way to install and test your app quickly while developing. This also saves a lot of time while developing apps.


Sample Flutter App Launcher icon


Sample Flutter App Demo

Frequently Asked Questions

The simplest method is to use Drag-and-Drop. Just drag your files or folders from your computer and drop them anywhere onto the emulator screen.

Files copied via drag-and-drop are automatically saved in the `/sdcard/Download` folder of the emulator device.

Yes, you can drag and drop a debug APK file into the emulator, and it will be installed automatically. Note that release APKs may not install this way due to security restrictions.

Yes, the drag-and-drop feature supports both individual files and entire folders.

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