When Jenkins runs in a headless environment, using the emulator is less than useful. However, this plugin is one of the only ways to manage the Android SDK for Jenkins. Currently, my only solution is to manually install the SDK and manage it via environment variables.

I would like to suggest that this plugin be broken into two separate plugins.

The first plugin would install/manage the Android SDK environment used for the Jenkins task. This would be similar to how the Java SDK is managed.

The second plugin would manage the emulator process.