Stopping Android Emulator From Command Line

To stop all Android emulator instance, we do,

adb emu kill

If we want to kill a specific Android emulator instance, we need to find out the device's serial number or identifier. For this, we do,

adb devices

The typical emulator serial number or identifier is emulator-5554. Using this as an example, we can kill the emulator instance using the command below,

adb -s emulator-5554 emu kill