Support arm64 Architecture

Please publish an arm64 compatible image to dockerhub.

Yes, please. Performance via emulation on M1 is terrible.

Yes, please!

Here is my try on creating a new docker image based on ubuntu:

FROM ubuntu:20.04

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# set default build arguments
ARG SDK_VERSION=commandlinetools-linux-8092744_latest.zip
ARG ANDROID_BUILD_VERSION=31
ARG ANDROID_TOOLS_VERSION=31.0.0
ARG NDK_VERSION=21.4.7075529
ARG NODE_VERSION=16.x
ARG WATCHMAN_VERSION=4.9.0
ARG CMAKE_VERSION=3.18.1
ARG AVD_PACKAGE=system-images;android-30;google_apis;x86_64

# set default environment variables, please don't remove old env for compatibilty issue
ENV ADB_INSTALL_TIMEOUT=10
ENV ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android
ENV ANDROID_SDK_HOME=
ENV ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=${ANDROID_HOME}
ENV ANDROID_NDK=${ANDROID_HOME}/ndk/$NDK_VERSION
ENV AVD_PACKAGE=${AVD_PACKAGE}
ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
ENV CMAKE_BIN_PATH=${ANDROID_HOME}/cmake/$CMAKE_VERSION/bin

ENV PATH=${ANDROID_NDK}:${CMAKE_BIN_PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:${ANDROID_HOME}/emulator:${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin:${PATH}

# Install system dependencies
RUN apt update -qq && apt install -qq -y --no-install-recommends \
        apt-transport-https \
        curl \
        file \
        gcc \
        git \
        g++ \
        gnupg2 \
        libc++1-10 \
        libgl1 \
        libtcmalloc-minimal4 \
        make \
        openjdk-11-jdk-headless \
        openssh-client \
        patch \
        python3 \
        python3-distutils \
        rsync \
        ruby \
        ruby-dev \
        tzdata \
        unzip \
        sudo \
        ninja-build \
        zip \
        # Dev libraries requested by Hermes
        libicu-dev \
        # Emulator & video bridge dependencies
        libc6 \
        libdbus-1-3 \
        libfontconfig1 \
        libgcc1 \
        libpulse0 \
        libtinfo5 \
        libx11-6 \
        libxcb1 \
        libxdamage1 \
        libnss3 \
        libxcomposite1 \
        libxcursor1 \
        libxi6 \
        libxext6 \
        libxfixes3 \
        zlib1g \
        libgl1 \
        pulseaudio \
        socat \
    && gem install bundler \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*;

# fix java home env var
RUN ln -s $(dirname -- $(dirname -- $(readlink -f /usr/bin/java))) /usr/lib/jvm/default-java
ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java

# install nodejs and yarn packages from nodesource
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_${NODE_VERSION} | bash - \
    && apt-get update -qq \
    && apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends nodejs \
    && npm i -g yarn \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Full reference at https://dl.google.com/android/repository/repository2-1.xml
# download and unpack android
# workaround buck clang version detection by symlinking
RUN curl -sS https://dl.google.com/android/repository/${SDK_VERSION} -o /tmp/sdk.zip \
    && mkdir -p ${ANDROID_HOME}/cmdline-tools \
    && unzip -q -d ${ANDROID_HOME}/cmdline-tools /tmp/sdk.zip \
    && mv ${ANDROID_HOME}/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools ${ANDROID_HOME}/cmdline-tools/latest \
    && rm /tmp/sdk.zip \
    && yes | sdkmanager --licenses > /dev/null \
    && yes | sdkmanager "platform-tools" \
        "emulator" \
        "platforms;android-$ANDROID_BUILD_VERSION" \
        "build-tools;$ANDROID_TOOLS_VERSION" \
        "cmake;$CMAKE_VERSION" \
        "$AVD_PACKAGE" \
        "ndk;$NDK_VERSION" \
    && rm -rf ${ANDROID_HOME}/.android \
    && ln -s ${ANDROID_NDK}/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/lib64/clang/9.0.9 ${ANDROID_NDK}/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/lib64/clang/9.0.8

However the problem is, that the Android AVD emulator is not available for arm64 architecture and fails to install

that the Android AVD emulator is not available for arm64 architecture and fails to install

What's the failure message?

I do not remember what the exact failure was, but I know it was some android tooling which did not work on arm64 and there were no workarounds, so I stopped working on it.

@cortinico

@cortinico I searched my google history and found Warning: Failed to find package 'emulator' arm64 which should be the error I had back in march. It seems there are now workarounds for the problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71545278/install-build-tools-on-arm64-doesnt-work, if somebody wants to give it a shot.

Did somebody achieve this?

This is still unsolved upstream.
Please go and star this issue on Google Issues' Tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/225541805

Any updates on this?

I'm interested in news about this too :D

any update on this, still facing this issue in 2025

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