How to control Android Emulator from Gradle

Question

I am looking for Gradle plugin to control Android emulator. Functionality I need from it is:

starting/stopping

install/uninstall

running connected tests

And preferably auto creation and setup (including download if missing) of Emulator images. Basically I want to be able to say inside my build.gradle

emulator{
   image=android-18
   memory=1024
   resolution=x y
   window=yes/no
}

and have Gradle download the original image and set it up like specified.

Is there some plugin that can do things like this?

NOTE:I know that there are CI plugins like this Jenkins one https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Android+Emulator+Plugin but that is not what I am looking for. I am looking for a pure Gradle solution, which will auto manage emulator state for testing and running the app on developers machines.

Answer 1

I found two plugins:

• https://github.com/quittle/gradle-android-emulator: looks quite good.
• https://github.com/gocal/android-emulator-plugin: looks old and deprecated