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Tutorial to set up Android Studio for an emulator

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TouHouPeace edited this page Mar 1, 2024 · 1 revision

This will serve as a general guide to setting up an Android emulator on your device just in case your phone doesn't work with Expo Go just like in my case.
The easiest way to do so is by using Android studios

  1. Download Android Studio here
  2. Open the setup, select Android Studio and Android Virtual Device under components, and click next.
  3. In the setup wizard, you should see a screen like this one, you could leave the install type as standard. image
  4. The setup wizard will ask you to verify settings, after you have done that, click next.
  5. Accept all licenses that pop up on the next page
  6. After the installation is complete, configure the ANDROID_HOME environment variable.
    To do so, Go to Windows Control Panel > User Accounts > User Accounts (again) > Change my environment variables and click New to create a new ANDROID_HOME user variable. The value of this variable will point to the path to your Android SDK: image
  7. To verify your installation is successful, open your terminal and type in the command
    Get-ChildItem -Path Env:
    This command will show all the environment variables, if you see ANDROID_HOME among them, your installation was successful.
  8. Thus your installation of Android Studio is complete
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