title: How to install application on SDcard mounted on android emulator?
body: <p>I am trying to install my own android application on SDcard using windows platform. First I set</p>
  
  <p><code>android:installLocation="preferExternal"</code></p>
  
  <p>in AndroidManifest.xml</p>
  
  <p>Then I launched emulator through eclipse. While creating this AVD I had given SDcard size 500 MiB and had set the SDcard support property also in AVD Manager. But the error is</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[2011-03-22 05:01:31 - SDcardDemo]
    Failed to install SDcardDemo.apk on
    device 'emulator-5554! [2011-03-22
    05:01:31 - SDcardDemo] (null)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I also tried to install using command line.</p>
  
  <p><code>D:\DATA\C\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools&gt;adb install -avd test_AVD SDcardDemo.apk</code></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>43 KB/s (14739 bytes in 0.328s) Error:
    Unknown option: -a</p>
  </blockquote>