diff --git a/android-types-internal.d.ts b/android-types-internal.d.ts
index 60f1500db4..6a109454e0 100644
--- a/android-types-internal.d.ts
+++ b/android-types-internal.d.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export interface AndroidDevice<BrowserContextOptions, BrowserContext, Page> exte
   open(command: string): Promise<AndroidSocket>;
   installApk(file: string | Buffer, options?: { args?: string[] }): Promise<void>;
   push(file: string | Buffer, path: string, options?: { mode?: number }): Promise<void>;
-  launchBrowser(options?: BrowserContextOptions & { packageName?: string  }): Promise<BrowserContext>;
+  launchBrowser(options?: BrowserContextOptions & { pkg?: string  }): Promise<BrowserContext>;
   close(): Promise<void>;
 
   wait(selector: AndroidSelector, options?: { state?: 'gone' } & { timeout?: number }): Promise<void>;
diff --git a/src/client/android.ts b/src/client/android.ts
index 880a817e54..21220bf630 100644
--- a/src/client/android.ts
+++ b/src/client/android.ts
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ export class AndroidDevice extends ChannelOwner<channels.AndroidDeviceChannel, c
     });
   }
 
-  async launchBrowser(options: types.BrowserContextOptions & { packageName?: string  } = {}): Promise<BrowserContext> {
+  async launchBrowser(options: types.BrowserContextOptions & { pkg?: string  } = {}): Promise<BrowserContext> {
     return this._wrapApiCall('androidDevice.launchBrowser', async () => {
       const contextOptions = await prepareBrowserContextOptions(options);
       const { context } = await this._channel.launchBrowser(contextOptions);
diff --git a/src/dispatchers/androidDispatcher.ts b/src/dispatchers/androidDispatcher.ts
index 993f18f7d7..dd3a2e7152 100644
--- a/src/dispatchers/androidDispatcher.ts
+++ b/src/dispatchers/androidDispatcher.ts
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ export class AndroidDeviceDispatcher extends Dispatcher<AndroidDevice, channels.
   }
 
   async launchBrowser(params: channels.AndroidDeviceLaunchBrowserParams): Promise<channels.AndroidDeviceLaunchBrowserResult> {
-    const context = await this._object.launchBrowser(params.packageName, params);
+    const context = await this._object.launchBrowser(params.pkg, params);
     return { context: new BrowserContextDispatcher(this._scope, context) };
   }
 
diff --git a/src/protocol/channels.ts b/src/protocol/channels.ts
index deb0610914..d4dedb5c68 100644
--- a/src/protocol/channels.ts
+++ b/src/protocol/channels.ts
@@ -2648,7 +2648,7 @@ export type AndroidDeviceInputDragOptions = {
 };
 export type AndroidDeviceInputDragResult = void;
 export type AndroidDeviceLaunchBrowserParams = {
-  packageName?: string,
+  pkg?: string,
   ignoreHTTPSErrors?: boolean,
   javaScriptEnabled?: boolean,
   bypassCSP?: boolean,
@@ -2693,7 +2693,7 @@ export type AndroidDeviceLaunchBrowserParams = {
   },
 };
 export type AndroidDeviceLaunchBrowserOptions = {
-  packageName?: string,
+  pkg?: string,
   ignoreHTTPSErrors?: boolean,
   javaScriptEnabled?: boolean,
   bypassCSP?: boolean,
diff --git a/src/protocol/protocol.yml b/src/protocol/protocol.yml
index 7210d52b4a..402e49c731 100644
--- a/src/protocol/protocol.yml
+++ b/src/protocol/protocol.yml
@@ -2236,7 +2236,7 @@ AndroidDevice:
 
     launchBrowser:
       parameters:
-        packageName: string?
+        pkg: string?
         ignoreHTTPSErrors: boolean?
         javaScriptEnabled: boolean?
         bypassCSP: boolean?
diff --git a/src/protocol/validator.ts b/src/protocol/validator.ts
index 78cf140633..210627e4ae 100644
--- a/src/protocol/validator.ts
+++ b/src/protocol/validator.ts
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ export function createScheme(tChannel: (name: string) => Validator): Scheme {
     steps: tNumber,
   });
   scheme.AndroidDeviceLaunchBrowserParams = tObject({
-    packageName: tOptional(tString),
+    pkg: tOptional(tString),
     ignoreHTTPSErrors: tOptional(tBoolean),
     javaScriptEnabled: tOptional(tBoolean),
     bypassCSP: tOptional(tBoolean),
diff --git a/src/server/android/android.ts b/src/server/android/android.ts
index 0d163b400a..a682b0988b 100644
--- a/src/server/android/android.ts
+++ b/src/server/android/android.ts
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import { Transport } from '../../protocol/transport';
 import { RecentLogsCollector } from '../../utils/debugLogger';
 import { TimeoutSettings } from '../../utils/timeoutSettings';
 import { AndroidWebView } from '../../protocol/channels';
+import { CRPage } from '../chromium/crPage';
 
 const readFileAsync = util.promisify(fs.readFile);
 
@@ -267,10 +268,19 @@ export class AndroidDevice extends EventEmitter {
 
     const browser = await CRBrowser.connect(androidBrowser, browserOptions);
     const controller = new ProgressController();
+    const defaultContext = browser._defaultContext!;
     await controller.run(async progress => {
-      await browser._defaultContext!._loadDefaultContextAsIs(progress);
+      await defaultContext._loadDefaultContextAsIs(progress);
     });
-    return browser._defaultContext!;
+    {
+      // TODO: remove after rolling to r838157
+      // Force page scale factor update.
+      const page = defaultContext.pages()[0];
+      const crPage = page._delegate as CRPage;
+      await crPage._mainFrameSession._client.send('Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride', { mobile: false, width: 0, height: 0, deviceScaleFactor: 0 });
+      await crPage._mainFrameSession._client.send('Emulation.clearDeviceMetricsOverride', {});
+    }
+    return defaultContext;
   }
 
   webViews(): AndroidWebView[] {
diff --git a/test/android/browser.spec.ts b/test/android/browser.spec.ts
index bc71db1771..05f58c4a20 100644
--- a/test/android/browser.spec.ts
+++ b/test/android/browser.spec.ts
@@ -38,4 +38,14 @@ if (process.env.PW_ANDROID_TESTS) {
     await page.close();
     await context.close();
   });
+
+  it('should check', async function({ device }) {
+    const context = await device.launchBrowser();
+    const [page] = context.pages();
+    await page.setContent(`<input id='checkbox' type='checkbox'></input>`);
+    await page.check('input');
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => window['checkbox'].checked)).toBe(true);
+    await page.close();
+    await context.close();
+  });
 }
diff --git a/utils/avd_start.sh b/utils/avd_start.sh
index d0d4356364..43ed4142c9 100755
--- a/utils/avd_start.sh
+++ b/utils/avd_start.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ echo "Killing previous emulators"
 ${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools/adb devices | grep emulator | cut -f1 | while read line; do ${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools/adb -s $line emu kill; done
 
 echo "Starting emulator"
-nohup ${ANDROID_HOME}/emulator/emulator -avd android30 -no-audio -no-snapshot &
+nohup ${ANDROID_HOME}/emulator/emulator -avd android30 -no-audio -gpu swiftshader &
 ${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools/adb wait-for-device shell 'while [[ -z $(getprop sys.boot_completed | tr -d '\r') ]]; do sleep 1; done; input keyevent 82'
 ${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools/adb devices
 echo "Emulator started"
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