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Android Virtual Device (AVD), is a virtual instance of the target device (phone/tablet) which can be run in the Android emulator for simulation.

Android Virtual Device (AVD), is a virtual instance of the target device (phone/tablet) which can be run in the Android emulator for simulation.

AVD supports various CPU architectures and Android API levels, emulating the necessary instruction sets. It supports some hardware like external SD card, camera that can be emulated using webcam and keyboard that can be emulated using both on screen and physical workstation keyboard. Some other hardware sensors can be emulated on AVD by using SensorSimulator.

Developer can have multiple AVD on the desktop. While AVD is not a complete replacement for testing on a physical phone, a physical phone is also not a complete replacement for AVD as AVD allows to test under various architectures , APIs and screen sizes.

Developers can use avdmanager to create or delete AVDs or manage them through Android Studio. There are several commands and options to manage and edit AVD settings here.

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Creating a Virtual Device with AVD Manager

I am new to Android App Development. (Did a year back but completely forgot) A year back I had created a Virtual Device and I had setup the Emulator using the AVD Manager. Back then, it only asked me to choose the Target and I chose 2.2 everytime so…
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Android AVD With HAXM Takes 1 Minute to Load APK Every Time, Normal?

Man, I'm getting frustrated. I just re-installed the Android ADT bundle because my AVD speeds were horrible, we're talking 2-3 minutes to load an AVD with a new APK, crazy. After the re-install, I found HAXM. Installing HAXM has made a HUGE…
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Trouble creating AVD on ADT

I downloaded the ADT bundle for Mac from developer.android.com, unzipped it and opened up the ADT executable but I cannot create an AVD. I get a null error when I do it through ADT and an error that the file /Users/my computer name/.android/avd/AVD…
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Android - how to run a local app on an emulator from a command line?

I am trying to run the NOOK emulator. It is a tablet from Barnes and Noble. Here is the command I am trying: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\add-ons\addon-nooksdk-nook-15\skins>emulator-arm -avd BNTV600 -skin NOOKcolor…
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Android SDK Manager and AVD Manager won't run

I'm running into a large handful of problems with using the Android SDK and AVD Managers. Neither one of them will run be running the executables in the android-sdk directory or from Eclipse. However, I can run the SDK Manager by running…
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Result doesn't show up when emulate with AVD on Mac

I'm a newbie for Android development. I want to run a Hello World on the emulator in Eclipse as my starting point, but the magic words never show up. I just follow the tutorial, Launch the Android Virtual Device Manager, Create a New AVD and Click…
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Mac: AVD wont launch

I am trying to use AVD on MAc. It was working fine before but now for an unknown reason it wont launched. If I try to launch the virtual device from AVD manager, I get the window saying "Starting Android Emulator" but the emulator dosent start and…
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Android Emulator does not install my application

Here's my issue: I created an application with eclipse and I've already tested it on my Galaxy Ace. Everything works fine. I need to make it work on the emulator too, so I created a new AVD and I started my application. As soon as the emulator…
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AVD not launching

I'm using the ADT plugin from ADT bundle for windows. The problem is when I launch an emulator from AVD manager, the AVD is not launching. The console messages only show the configuration of created AVD. But no AVD showing up. This is a unique…
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AVD Emulator Browser won't use hosts file

I'm pretty frustrated with this one. I have a dev web server running a service feed for my Android app. I can browse to it from any number of machines. On the AVD (and I've tried different versions all the same) I remount rw and pull, edit then…
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Make Emulator of Asus google nexus 7

I have android sdk , updated to latest version(v21). Now what i want is : Make emulator of Asus google nexus 7, that contains 800 x 1280 resolution and 216 dpi. As i updated my sdk to latest version i can not edit my current dpi of…
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(undetailed) Panic while creating Android Virtual Device (AVD)

Programming newbie, just getting started with all of this... I have searched around, but I haven't found anything relevant to my problem So here it is, So I'm trying to build a simple hello world application for android, but I wanted to test run the…
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Unable to start a test app on an emulator

I have these configurations to the AVD: and Installed the min SDK API 10 and the application manifest is:
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User defined devices don't show up on the device definitions list

I'm just getting started on an app idea I had to automate some things that my computer does through my phone. I had the sdk downloaded from before but I couldn't get it to let me define a user device. I thought it was a bug with the old install of…
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Android - NullPointerException on EditText field

I've been following the Android tutorials and created MyFirstApp (see http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html) and I can launch the app ok on the emulator, but upon entering a message and hitting "send" I get an…
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