GooglePlay Installation for Emulator (Marshmallow/Nougat)

Question

I have tried so many options/blogs/scripts to install GooglePlay for Emulator (running through Android Studio) but it never works. I have seen so many different errors

1. Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]
2. Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]
3. Failure No space left on /system

Comment - Why is it so hard to install GooglePlay on Emulator, can someone provide steps or GApps that work with Marshmallow/Noughat. Or Why doesnt Google provide standard steps to install GApps for Emulators !

Here's the gist of what I have tried :

1. Copy GApps from http://opengapps.org/ [ Platform: x86_64; Android: 6 & 7; Variant: full ]
2. Extract the zipped file to temporary folder and then extract following apks from it to another folder
   • gsfcore-all/nodpi/priv-app/GoogleServicesFramework/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
   • gsflogin-all/nodpi/priv-app/GoogleLoginService/GoogleLoginService.apk
   • gmscore-x86_64/nodpi/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCore/PrebuiltGmsCore.apk
   • vending-all/nodpi/priv-app/Phonesky/Phonesky.apk

3. Try pushing these apks through this script

   IMAGE_NAME=Nexus_5X_API_24 #Nexus_5X_API_23
   emulator @${IMAGE_NAME} -no-boot-anim -writable-system &
   adb wait-for-device
   adb root
   adb shell stop
   adb shell 'mount -o remount,rw /system'
   adb push PrebuiltGmsCore.apk /system/priv-app/
   adb push GoogleServicesFramework.apk /system/priv-app/
   adb push GoogleLoginService.apk /system/priv-app/
   adb push Phonesky.apk /system/priv-app/
   adb shell start
   

Latest Error : Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]

How can I make sure that openGApps will be compatible with Android apart from taking these options into account :

1. Android Version (Noughat/Api 24/Android 7)
2. Platform (x86_64 )

I would really appreciate any help !!

Reference -

1. Android Studio emulator does not come with Play Store for API 23

2. How to install Google Play app in Android Studio emulator?

3. How to download Google Play Services in an Android emulator?

Answer 1

Starting with Android Studio 3.0 Canary 1, you have now some options of devices that come with the Play Store app built-in(Nexus 5X and Nexus 5 on image below). The current supported versions are Nougat and O.