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copied!<p>I do this in a more permanent way - instead of installing the APKs each time with <code>adb</code>, permanently add them to the system image that the emulator uses. You will need <a href="http://code.google.com/p/yaffey/">Yaffey</a> on Windows, or a similar utility on other systems, to modify YAFFS2 images. Copy <code>GoogleLoginService.apk</code>, <code>GoogleServicesFramework.apk</code>, and <code>Phonesky.apk</code> (or <code>Vending.apk</code> in older versions of Android) to the <code>/system/app</code> folder of the <code>system.img</code> file of the emulator. Afterwards I can start the emulator normally, without messing with adb, and Play Store is always there.</p> <h1>Obtaining the Google Play app from your device</h1> <p>Downloading Google Apps from some Internet site may not be quite legal, but if you have a phone or tablet with a corresponding Android version, just pull them out of your device:</p> <pre><code>adb -d root adb -d pull /system/app/GoogleLoginService.apk adb -d pull /system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk adb -d pull /system/app/Phonesky.apk </code></pre> <p>You must have <strong><em>root-level access</em></strong> (run adb root) to the device in order to pull these files from it. </p> <h1>Adding it to the image</h1> <p>Now start <code>yaffey</code> on Windows or a similar utility on Linux or Mac, and open <code>system.img</code> for the emulator image you want to modify. I modify most often the one in <code>[...]\android-sdk\system-images\android-17\x86</code>.</p> <p>Rename the original <code>system.img</code> to <code>system-original.img</code>. Under yaffey, copy the APK files you pulled from your device to /app folder. Save your modified image as <code>system.img</code> in the original folder. Then start your emulator (in my case it would be Android 4.2 emulator with Intel Atom processor running under Intel HAX, super-fast on Windows machines) and you'll have Play Store there. I did not find it necessary to delete <code>SdkSetup.apk</code> and <code>SdkSetup.odex</code> - the Play Store and other services still work fine for me with these files present.</p> <p>When finished with your testing, to alleviate your conscience guilty of temporarily pirating the Google Apps from your device, you may delete the modified <code>system.img</code> and restore the original from <code>system-original.img</code>.</p>

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