Questions tagged [avd-manager]
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Android emulator (adb devices -l) unauthorized error
Requirement
Share all the android virtual devices (AVD) across multiple instances. So that, an AVD can be started from any instance.
Setup
I have multiple instances where the Android Sdk are donwloaded
Location of .android is put in a separate…

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Android emulator status bar disappears after a while
Android emulator status bar disappears after a while . Also button for see the background running apps does not work after a while ! ( Using Flutter version 2.0.1 , Google pixel 4 (API 30) emulator , Android 11 )
Note : When I create a new emulator…

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Ubuntu android studio AVD error: Emulator: emulator: ERROR: VkCommonOperations.cpp:540: Failed to create Vulkan instance
In android studio I created a device in AVD and when I click the play button I get this:
Here are the logs:
12:22 PM Emulator: emulator: ERROR: VkCommonOperations.cpp:540: Failed to create Vulkan instance.
12:22 PM Emulator: Process finished…

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Pixel 2 Emulator / Virtual Device not in AVD manager device list
Question
Can you only create the Pixel 2 virtual device via Android Studio (v3.1.4) and not via avdmanager?
What we want to do
Use avdmanager to create a Pixel 2 device automatically (Continuous Integration script based on avdmanger). We need to use…

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Virtual device target (Android null) - Android Studio
I am facing an issue which I am trying to solve for 2 days now and seem to be missing something out.
I have reinstalled Android Studio into custom location to save some space of my C: drive, and made the necessary adjustments to my environmental…

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How to create AVD from command line using a hardware profile?
Currently I've been managing AVDs via the Android Studio UI at Tools > AVD Manager. This works for creating an AVD with a specific hardware profile (that I have in an XML file), but I find that frequently an AVD is breaking somehow. Next to the AVD…

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Where Is the AVD manager in android studio 4.0
I just updated my android studio to version 4.0.
Before the update (version 3.6), if I wanted to open the AVD manager all I needed to do was
Tools > AVD Manager
Now I cannot open the avd manager with Tools > AVD Manager because the option is not…

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ANDROID AVD "emulator" package must be installed
I want install new device in my docker container.
I had dowload new sdk
./sdkmanager "system-images;android-23;google_apis;x86"
I had accept all licences
./sdkmanager --licenses
And now I want create a new emulator with AVDMANAGER
./avdmanager…

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android studio avd manager invalid option -- '-enable-whpx'
I facing an error while running any emulator with android studio avd manager:
...AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator/emulator-x86.exe: invalid option -- '-enable-whpx'
android studio version is 3.1.3
android emulator version is 27.3.9
Hyper-V and…

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Creating an Android AVD in a specific path
I noticed that AVD MAnager creates all AVD machines in the folder Users of disk C.
Well... I have got SSD 120 GB and it is full... So I would like to create all AVDs in disk D.
How to configure Android Studio to do it?

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How to run device setup wizard on Android emulator?
I want to run device setup wizard - the app that's getting run when you first boot your fresh (factory reset) device. The problem is: I want to run it on Android Emulator.
I've tried the following on Emulator running Android 12:
Boot emulator via…

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Emulator: Process finished with exit code -1073741515 (0xC0000135)
Android Studio 4.0, Emulator 30.0.12, Win 10
Everything has been ok, but today my AVD emulator stopped start and started to show error like this:
The emulator process for AVD Pixel_2_API_29 was killed.
if I start it from the AVD Manager or if I…

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Bootloop if -writable-system is used
I used to start my Android Studio emulator using
emulator -avd "mydevice" -writable-system
But suddenly now it only works if I remove the -writable-system option, otherwise it is stuck with the boot logo.
Why would that option change the outcome of…

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android studio emulator: click on panel buttons causes emulator closes
Android Studio 3.5
Build #AI-191.8026.42.35.5791312, built on August 9, 2019
JRE: 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b49-5587405 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Linux 4.15.0-64-generic
I have updated my android studio, and after that,…

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What exactly does the 'Wipe Data' function do under the Android Virtual Device Manager
I want to know what steps Android Studio takes when the action 'Wipe Data' is clicked within the Android Virtual Device Manager.
I have an app (third-party app so I don't have access to its source code and I won't mention its name) that brings up a…

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