Getting photos into the gallery on Android AVD

From android sdk’s tools folder run:

android

From Tools menu, Manage AVDs. Select the AVD and click Edit the AVD. to include a 100mb sd card image.

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Note: Go ahead and bump RAM up to 1gb while you’re in here.

Launch the emulator and run this AVD

emulator @myavd

Now there are a couple ways to mount the SD card once the emulator is running. http://androidforums.com/developer-101/463412-how-access-files-avd-sd-card.html, however I found that the SDK allowed me to :

1. shell into the AVD using adb (which is in platform-tools, not tools).

   adb shell

2. Make the appropriate folder

   mkdir sdcard/Pictures exit

3. Copy a picture from my local file sytem over.

   ./adb push ~/Pictures/IMAG0381.jpg sdcard/Pictures

There may have been a way to copy the file over w/ shelling in, but this is another helpful tidbit.