Telnet and your Android Emulator

Did you know you can telnet into an Android emulator/AVD?  Assuming that you have telnet installed and have created an AVD, its very easy. 

1. On your Android AVD’s title bar you should see the name of your emulator with some numbers pre-pended to it.  That is the console port number of your AVD.
2. Open a command window and type “telnet localhost <the number>” NOTE – don’t type the brackets, just the number.
3. Your command window should be updated to show the connection.  Type help to get a valid command list.