Reboot android into recovery/download mode using adb (without buttons)

Hi guys,

Sometimes it's useful to reboot your android phone into recovery/download mode. For example, if you want to do a factory reset or root your device. One of the ways of rebooting into such mode is by using special combination of buttons. But if you don't know such combination, there is another way of doing that - by using usb cable and special program called 'adb' (android debug bridge). Below we will discuss this second way. Also, I will be doing everything on Linux, because this is what my website about. But you can also do it on Windows or Mac OS.

How to install google play store on android emulator (Android 7.1.1, API 25)

Recently I have been doing some stuff on android emulators and discovered that there is no google play store over there. Then I found some articles on how to install google play store on emulator (for example this website: www.flinkd.org) But most of the existing tutorials were for android 5, API 21 and when I tried to do them, links to gapps archives were broken and the archive format was slightly different than it is today on opengapps.org. So today I will give you new updated tutorial on how to install google play store on android emulator.

Let's start with a brief overview of what you might need and what are the possible ways of getting google play store on your android emulator.