android-emulator software package provides transitional dummy package, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install android-emulator
android-emulator is installed in your system.
Make ensure the android-emulator package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep android-emulator *
You will get with android-emulator package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Other OSs and file systems |
| Package | android-emulator |
| Version | 20160330-0939-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | transitional dummy package |
| Sub Section | otherosfs |