Install Android Studio and run an AVD on MacbookPro(M2)

• install with brew: $ brew install --cask android-studio
• search and run Android Studio from Spotlight
• choose, “More Actions” from the main popup, then “Virtual Device Manager”

Install Android SDK Platform-Tools for Mac

• Download the platform tools (https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools?hl=en)
• Unzip the downloaded file(ex, platform-tools_rXX.X.X-darwin.zip)
• Move the unzipped folder somewhere and create a symbolic link to it

  $ sudo ln -s /Users/XXX/local/platform-tools/adb /usr/local/bin/adb
  

Run a virtual device

• Device
  • ((added a Pixel 6 device with Release S - API 31, ABI arm64-v8a, Android 12.0, Default System Image(Non-Google API))
  • lauch the added device

Install Frida

• Confirm the arch spec. of the emulator:

  adb shell getprop ro.product.cpu.abi
  arm64-v8a
  

• Download a Frida-server from https://github.com/frida/frida/releases

  • ex) frida-server-16.1.11-android-arm64.xz

• Decompress the server and install it on the emulator

  $ adb shell "mkdir -p /data/local/tmp"
  $ adb push ~/Downloads/frida-server-16.1.11-android-arm64 /data/local/tmp/frida-server
  $ adb shell "chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/frida-server"
  $ 
  

• Launch the server

  $ adb shell
  emulator64_arm64:/ $ su
  emulator64_arm64:/ # /data/local/tmp/frida-server &
  [1] 2607
  

Install Frida client

• install tools with pip

  $ pip install frida
  $ pip install frida-tools
  

Test the Frida client against the Frida-server on AVD

$ frida-ps -U
 PID  Name
----  -----------------------------------------------------------------
1551   Phone
1002   SIM Toolkit
2276   Settings
 439      adbd

• If the system asks for “allowing Terminal-Initiated Display”, say “Yes”