android emulator with google play for mac

Step by step walk through there.ĭirectly plagarized from xamarin here so I don't get dinged for linking and not including solution. Scroll down to the 'Installing Google Play Services' section. You can update Play Services as shown on screenshot, or manually on device. You should choose one with Google Play and NOT with Google API. You should use device definition with play store icon. Open AVD manager and choose create new device. Also you will be able update it without re-creating AVD image. It will enable you to use Google Services including Google Play. Now even better solution exist: using AVD image with build-in Google Play Services. How to setup AVD system image with Google Play

The same for updating Google Services on AVD system image with Google API preinstalled - can't update because of incompatible certificates, can't uninstall even using adb because don't have access. So seems like it is not possible to make them work on pure AVD image because they should be installed with root access. I was able to install Google Play and Google Services as separate apks to pure system image api 16 and 17, but they don't really work after that (services crush and play not opens).

For api 21+ you can use system image with Google Play as I describe below.įor api 19+ (Android 4.4 Kitkat) you can use system image x86 with Google Api (I was able to use it).įor api 17+ (Android 4.2.2) you can TRY to use system image ARM with Google Api (It didn't work for me).

Android emulator with google play for mac