Docker HyperV and Android Emulator HOWTO

So, I want Docker and my Android Emulator working at the same time on Windows 10… it wasn’t simple to figure out. Eventually I came across the solution of using a hyper-v hosted instance of android and connecting the android studio to it for debugging. Works great! Here’s the write up I found. It’s a little bit dated so the load instructions are quite perfect, but they’re pretty darn close!

Using Android-X86 as an Emulator in Hyper-V for Windows

Worth mentioning, as of the time of this writing the way to get the IP from within android was ‘ipconfig’ instead of ‘netcfg’. And the location of the ‘adb’ tool was something like the following:
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools

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