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Unrepentent Geek
Unrepentent Geek

Reputation: 465

Android Emulator never fully starts

When I run built-in AVDs using the Android Virtual Device Manager (API levels 10 and 12) Android boots up fine. Unfortunately when I try to run an AVD with a newer versions of the API it fails (I've tried both 4 and 4.4.2). Here are steps I took.

  1. Ran Android SDK manager and downloaded all the available Android packages
  2. Using the Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager I created a device definition copying all settings for default Nexus 5 phone.

  3. I then created an AVD with following settings

    • Device: nexus5clonedevice
    • Target: Android 4.4.1 API Level 19
    • CPU/ABI: ARM(armeabi-v7a)
    • Keyboard: unchecked
    • Skin: No Skin
    • Back Camera: None
    • Front Camera: None
    • RAM: 768 (also tried 2048)
    • VM HEAP: 64
    • Internal Storage: 16 GB
    • SD Card: 16 GB
    • Emulation options: (both unchecked)
    • (Launched the AVD with nothing checked)

The AVD starts but instead of getting android I get a black box that doesn't do anything. I read in another thread that waiting might help but I tried waiting for over 30 minutes to no avail. (running this on windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit with 12 GB RAM)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1167

Answers (1)

Shreenivas Chikati
Shreenivas Chikati

Reputation: 319

The Android Emulator is very slow. I recommend you use Genymotion Emulator which is very fast compared to the Android Emulator or you can directly debug the app on an android device.

Upvotes: 3

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