How to install Google Play Market on tablet - Android emulator?

Question

If I add a new emulator image of a phone, I can select an image with Play Store.

But when I try to add an image for a tablet, no option for Play Market is shown. Also, after installing any API, I can't find Play Market.

Said

Did you find solution for this? – Gruesome

@Yupi, sorry, I still have no a solution and postponed it. Several years ago I downloaded images with Google Services and tried to install them. Or used emulators (Bluestacks, Nox, Genymotion, etc), but they often install old versions of SDK. – Said

Okay thanks for response. – Gruesome

Answer 1

As explained in this answer, https://mcmap.net/q/502333/-android-emulator-without-playstore-on-android-studio-3-1-latest-release

You should create a new emulator, before opening it for the first time follow these 3 easy steps:

1- In the AVD Manger go in the Actions overflow menu of the newly created emulator and click on "show on disk". Open "config.ini" with a text editor.

2- change "PlayStore.enabled=false" to "PlayStore.enabled=true"

3- change "image.sysdir.1 = system-images\android-30\google_apis\x86"

to

"image.sysdir.1 = system-images\android-30\google_apis_playstore\x86"

Magnanimous

I can't seem to get this to work. The message when starting the emulator is that the process has terminated. – Staffman

I guess first of all you need to be sure, you have needed system image (for example you can download it for phone emulator and just copy it path to tablet emulator config). And second point be sure you use correct slashes in the path =) in this comment they are for Windows system. – Antimacassar

you can also edit tag.display = Google Play and tag.id = google_apis_playstore to make it show up in the Device Manager as a Google Play image. I had to Invalidate Caches and restart Android Studio to make this change take effect – Promote

In my case (for Mac), for step 3, I had to change it to the following: "image.sysdir.1 = system-images/android-30/google_apis_playstore/x86/" Note the forward slash at the end. Thanks! – Billfish