Where is Android Emulator Internal Storage

Question

I have an error due to the contents of a file stored in internal storage on my Android Emulator. (I wrote it to file). Is there a way I can view the internal storage used by my app in windows?

I've searched through my whole project folder, sdk, workspace etc and cant find anything. I saw someone in another question say it was in the /data folder, but i dont know where to look for that either.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to view the folder/file structure of the running emulator, you can do that with the Android Device Monitor which is included with the SDK.

Specifically, it has a File Explorer, which allows you to browse the folder structure on the device. It also has buttons which give you the adb push/pull functionality but from a GUI if this is easier for you to use.

Answer 2

In Android Studio on Mac you can go to View -> Tool Windows -> Device File Explorer. Here you can use a finder-like structure.

Answer 3

They are stored in an img file inside the avd directory. If you are using Linux you can mount the img file via:

sudo mount -o loop ~/.android/avd/<youremulator>/sdcard.img <mountpoint>

Not sure if there is a way in Windows or Mac to view the contents of the img since they are either in ext3, ext4, or yaffs file system format (depending on what you are emulating) and windows doesn't easily support those file systems.

Your best bet is to use adb to copy the file directly out of the emulator while it is running as shown in adb --help:

adb pull <remote> [<local>]  - copy file/dir from device