Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

It is my first working day in this year and I started it with installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on my PC.

Why I need this system?
I want to try use it in my development environment. I used Windows XP,not Vista .
First of all I found that emulator instance works slowly than in my Windows machine,but for me it is not very big problem…I think so.
In Linux I found one very good solution for working with SDCard image. In Linux I can use file manager when need to access SDCard and it is very useful. Here I want to provide steps for accessing SDCard through file manager:

1. Create an image of an SDCard (1GB)

   mksdcard 1024M /home/sheff/SDCard.iso

2. Mount the image to a loop device

sudo losetup /dev/loop0 /home/sheff/SDCard.iso

3. Make a folder where you want to mount the image

   mkdir /home/sheff/sdcard

4. Mount the loop device into a folder so that you can put things directly on it

   sudo mount /dev/loop0 /home/sheff/sdcard

5. Open the folder using root account Alt+F2

   gksudo nautilus /home/sheff/sdcard

   Now you can use this folder as other folder in the system.

Note:don’t forget to load this image to the emulator. You have 2 ways.

• From command line

  emulator -sdcard /home/sheff/SDCard.iso

• From Eclipse IDE
  Run configuration…->your_project->Target tab->Additional Emulator Command Line Options:

  -sdcard /home/sheff/SDCard.iso

  

To see your files or new folders need to restart emulator.

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