Deprecated options

The following command-line options are deprecated:

v -audio-in

v -audio-out

v -charmap

v -code-profile

v -cpu-delay

v -dpi-device

v -dynamic_skin

v -enable-kvm

v -gps

v -image

v -keyset

v -help-keys

v -help-keyset-file

v -nand-limits

v -noskin

v -no-skin

v -onion

v -onion-alpha

v -onion-rotation

v -radio

v -ranchu

v -raw-keys

v -scale

v -shared-net-id

v -shell-serial

v -skin

v -skindir

v -trace

v -useaudio

Getting help about command-line options

This section describes how to get help about the command-line options. The following section provides more in-depth information about the commonly used emulator command-line options that are available when you start the emulator.

Listing all emulator options

To print a list of all emulator options, including a short description, enter this command:

emulator -help

Getting detailed help for a specific option

To print help for a specific startup option, enter this command:

emulator -help-option

For example:

emulator -help-netspeed

This help is more detailed than the description provided by the -help option.

Getting detailed help for all options

To get detailed help for all emulator options, enter this command:

emulator -help-all

Listing emulator environment variables

To get a list of emulator environment variables, enter this command:

emulator -help-environment

You can set environment variables in the terminal window before launching a virtual device, or you could set it through your user settings in the operating system; for example, in your .bashrc file on Linux.

Listing debug tags

To print a list of tags for the -debug options, enter this command:

emulator -help-debug-tags

The -debug options let you enable or disable debug messages from specific emulator components, as specified by the tags.