No emulator image found while creating a mobile chrome app for android

Question

I'm trying to develop a mobile chrome app.

Here are the steps I followed:

• Install JDK 7
• Install node
• Install cca
• Install ant
• Install android-sdk
• Create a basic "hello-world" desktop chrome app
• cd to hello-world and run cca create mobile-hello-world
• cd to mobile-hello-world and run cca run android

Here is the error message I get:

ERROR : No emulator images (avds) found, if you would like to create an
 avd follow the instructions provided here:
 http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/index.html
 Or run 'android create avd --name <name> --target <targetID>'
 in on the command line.

Isn't cca supposed to take care of creating an emulator image for me?

I don't see any instructions in mobile chrome app documentation for this. What should I do?

Answer 1

Open Android SDK Manager and be sure that ARM EABI v7a System Image is installed.

Answer 2

Using the GUI to create a target image helps for point and clickers like me! Run android avd to create as many images you need.

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You'll need to have the SDK installed first, of course; the steps 2 & 3 from the following worked for me:

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.8.0/guide_getting-started_android_index.md.html#Getting%20Started%20with%20Android

These instructions are for 2.8, but worked for me using Cordova 3.5

Run android from the commandline to open the SDK manager, and update required components.