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Installing an Android AVD for Mac

Installing an Android AVD for Mac

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Installing an Android AVD for Mac

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- [Instructor] The best way to test out a React Native application is to use an Android device. But if you don't have access to the device, you can use something called an AVD, an Android Virtual Device. In this lesson, we'll show you how to set up Android Studio on a Mac and configure an Android virtual device. The Android Studio is an IDE for developing Java applications that run on the Android platform. First, we need to download it. So I can do a quick Google search for Android Studio. And the first link we see is, download Android Studio and SDK tools. And the page itself has checked my operating system. It knows that I'm on a Mac and has selected the appropriate download. So I'll just click on the Download button. I'll agree to the terms and conditions and our download begins. Once we have our DMG downloaded, I go ahead and open it up. And I'll just drag Android Studio into the Applications folder to install…

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