Windows: Nothing happens on `npm run capacitor open android`

[ionic-team]

Windows: Nothing happens on `npm run capacitor open android`

[mlynch]

Should be working in @capacitor/cli 0.0.17. Also made it configurable for Windows since it's not possible to just launch it by program name (as far as I can tell at least):

{
  "windows": {
    "androidStudioPath": "H:\\path\\to\\Android Studio\\bin\\studio64.exe"
  }
}

[mlynch]

Thanks, more windows Testing is called for clearly 😅

[mlynch]

opn("..\\capacitor\\example\\android", { app: 'C:\\Program Files\\Android\\Android Studio\\bin\\studio64.exe', wait: false });

[prantikv]

I have Android SDK setup and working. Does capacitor required android studio or will it work with Android SDK.

[jcesarmobile]

It requires Android Studio, what open do is to open Android Studio

[prantikv]

@jcesarmobile can there be a work around to use Android SDK instead?

[jcesarmobile]

We are considering it because of CIs, but I don't think it's a priority at the moment.

Nevertheless, the project Capacitor creates includes gradle, so, from the android folder you can use gradle scripts like gradlew installDebug to create a debug build and install it on a connected device, or gradlew assembleRelease to build a release apk, so it's sort of supported out of the box, just not integrated in the Capacitor CLI yet.

[prantikv]

How can open build and run capacitor app on a connected Android device? Can this be done? Going through the docs I only see running in android studio.

[jcesarmobile]

how do you want to open it?

The documented way is using Android Studio, you open it with npx cap open android and run from there.
To run it using gradle there is nothing to open, just from the terminal, go to android folder and run ./gradlew installDebug. It just build and install the app in the device, but doesn't launch it.
You can launch it using adb
adb shell am start -n your.app.package/.MainActivity

As I said, this is not integrated in the CLI, it's just regular Android commands that are available with the Android SDK and Gradle, that's why it's not documented.

[janpio]

@prantikv You do that via Android Studio - in there you can select which device (emulator or connected real device) the app should be run on. (This is similar to how you do it in Xcode for iOS by the way)