Requesting/Begging for a China available mirror image #240

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1. jpcottin commented on May 16, 2026

   

   jpcottin

   on May 16, 2026

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   @dubiao — apologies this sat for ~5 years. #411 (merged today) provides part of what you asked for: a new ANDROID_REPOSITORY environment variable that lets you point all system-image / emulator / platform-tools downloads at a mirror of your choice.

   export ANDROID_REPOSITORY=https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn
   emu-docker create stable "Q google_apis x86_64"

   The script will fetch sys-img2-5.xml and the per-package zips from that base instead of dl.google.com. Any mirror that preserves the upstream android/repository/... path layout should work (TUNA, Aliyun, etc.).

   What this doesn't address: the second half of your request — auto-publishing the prebuilt container images (us-docker.pkg.dev/android-emulator-268719/...) to a registry that syncs to Chinese mirrors. That's an infra/distribution decision outside the scope of this repo's code.

   Closing as the in-scope part is shipped. If you hit issues using ANDROID_REPOSITORY against a specific mirror, please open a new issue with the mirror URL and the failure — the code and instructions have changed substantially since this was filed, so a fresh thread will be easier to track.
2. jpcottin

   closed this as completedon May 16, 2026