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Over the last couple of weeks, I have been testing my Android app on different devices. That work is going well. In this note, I’d like to share a couple of things that came out as side effects of that work, including:
– How to move Android virtual device (AVD) files from an Android Emulator to another machine.
– A set of AVD definitions that I found useful in checking an app on different screen sizes and screen densities.

Knowing how to move AVD files is important for a couple of reasons: (a) if you ever switch machines or do a complete reinstall of your Android environment, it would be good if you could reuse old device definitions rather than having to recreate them; (b) If you are working on a team, it saves a lot of time if there is a shared set of devices that everyone in the team is testing against.
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