How to run Android emulator on windows while using WSL2 with zsh?

Question

I'm based on this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58229368/13495096

I need to develop using react-native in Windows through WSL2.

I did exactly what the answer says and after a few hours of solving some errors, got to the point where:

• WSL2 is installed and running (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
• Android Studio is installed on Windows 10 (Pro x64);
• ADB is with the same version in both WSL2 and Windows (1.0.32);
• $PATH is configured properly (below) in my .zshrc file:

# Android SDK

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
export JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/usr/lib/android-sdk
export ANDROID_HOME=/Android/Sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export PATH=$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools/bin:$PATH

I start a device on Android Studio (Windows) and in Powershell, when running adb devices, it returns:

List of devices attached
emulator-5554   device

When I run adb devices on my WSL terminal, it returns only List of devices attached, with nothing else.

Based on the linked answer, it's possible to do it but I can't. How can I make that happen? What am I missing?

I'm moving from OS X to Windows and I never tried Linux.

Answer 1

Ended up finding this tutorial that solved my problem (but raised some others, like not being able to access localhost from Android Emulator)

https://gist.github.com/bergmannjg/461958db03c6ae41a66d264ae6504ade