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Document setting up an emulator before running `skip checkup`

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
62/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android
Domain
documentation, mobile-dev

Research direction

Read the existing setup documentation that currently covers Xcode, Android Studio, Homebrew, and skip checkup. Verify the documented prerequisite by trying skip android emulator create, skip android home install, or the Android Studio flow, then update the instructions so setup succeeds before skip checkup is run.

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Description

The documentation currently just says to install Xcode, Android Studio, and Homebrew, and to then run skip checkup.

But you have to do one of these before skip checkup will succeed:

  1. skip android emulator create
  2. skip android home install
  3. Actually launch Android Studio and click Next Next Next
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