Start AVD always with the same settings

Issue

What I would like to do:

• create manually AVD
• change device settings
• save it somehow
• always start AVD with the same settings as set right after creation

Is there any simple way to save state of AVD and load it?

Solution

1. Manually create your AVD
2. Change it's settings - for example turn on security
3. Locate AVD on your hard drive
4. Copy userdata-qemu.img to other location -> it contains of your current emulator configuration
5. Start emulator by terminal by

emulator -avd AVD_NAME -initdata PATH/userdata-qemu.img -wipe-data

• wipe-data resets whole AVD to state after creation
• initdata sets file under path as initial state

By doing so your emulator will always launch with the same state as saved in userdata-qemu.img.

Answered By - F1sher