It's been some time that I had tried getting the Market up and running on a 2.2 a.k.a Froyo emulator. On a previous post, I had described how to setup an emulator (1.5 and 1.6) with the Market app. Today, I got a comment on that post which points to a 2.2 image that does the same. You just have to download that image file and follow exactly the same steps to set it up.This is the link to the system.img file. Thanks Anonymous for your contribution. I have tried this, and it works. Here's a link (David's Blog) that anonymous referred to. He has described all the steps to create this system image needed to put the Market app on emulator.
A few things:
- This image will only work on a 2.2 emulator
- While creating the emulator, you should specify the cache partition size as 96 MB.
Check out the previous post for more details.
There are however a few limitations that I found with this hack.
- The Android Market app doesn't seem to update itself to the new UI that we currently have on our phones.
- There are only a limited number of apps that show up on the Market. (No Angry Birds for example)