Here you can use a finder-like structure.
In Android Studio on Mac you can go to View -> Tool Windows -> Device File Explorer. When installing Android Studio has an option to install the. Your best bet is to use adb to copy the file directly out of the emulator while it is running as shown in adb -help: adb pull - copy file/dir from device First, open the file explorer and go to the Android SDK folder. Not sure if there is a way in Windows or Mac to view the contents of the img since they are either in ext3, ext4, or yaffs file system format (depending on what you are emulating) and windows doesn't easily support those file systems. If you are using Linux you can mount the img file via: sudo mount -o loop ~/.android/avd//sdcard.img They are stored in an img file inside the avd directory. It also has buttons which give you the adb push/pull functionality but from a GUI if this is easier for you to use. Specifically, it has a File Explorer, which allows you to browse the folder structure on the device. If you want to view the folder/file structure of the running emulator, you can do that with the Android Device Monitor which is included with the SDK.