In the past, the Android Emulator is always a standalone nice Emulator not attached to Android Studio. It is very helpful for a quick snapshot for documentation purpose, as it looks like a real device without the Window Frame.
However, after installing Android Studio Dolphin, the Emulator either Dock to the Android Studio or having an ugly Window Frame around it as below.
Can I get rid of the Window Frame?
You can't get rid of the window border, because they added the feature to include the emulator inside Android Studio (Refer to the Emulator patch notes 30.0.10).
If it is unbearable, then there is the option to run the emulator from the command line as instructed here. But you have to run your app in Android Studio beforehand.
Personally I would just deal with it. Taking screenshots is still possible with the menu points on top. But other than that I couldn't find another option.
Update: I actually found the setting to remove the tool window and just get the emulator as a floating window.
In Android Studio, go to the Settings, search for "Emulator" (its in the secion "Tools" and untick "Launch in a tool window".
Hope this is the answer you are looking for
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I am not able to see 'more' options for the emulator in the Android studio. I want to change the location from the options menu.
Update as of Sept 2021
Developers now have access to all extended emulator controls when the
emulator is opened in a tool window.
Previous Answer
As per the official documentation it's a limitation See here
Currently, you can't use the emulator's extended controls when it's running in a tool window. If your development workflow depends heavily on the extended controls, continue to use the Android Emulator as a standalone application.
Uncheck and run again.
Just go the File->Setting->Tools->Emulator
And then uncheck the checkbox and press apply and run the application again this will show you the emulator with all detail.
I am using Android Studio 4.1 and the emulator looks like this
Now i am following a tutorial series where the person has old version of Android studio but he is able to change battery level of his emulator using the options provided. The options are accessed by this button
Now I have right clicked everything. Searched on YouTube but I cannot find this option. So it would be great if someone can guide me
You can't access that from within the tool window, unfortunately:
So you'll need to uncheck the Launch in a tool window box, and it'll run in a separate window. The tool window version is new so I assume they'll add the options at some point though.
(If you need to find that settings screen, do Ctrl+Shift+A and type Emulator)
I'm trying to run a sample Xamarin app and I think my Android emulator is acting up. I've tried enabling Hyper-V, increasing the RAM, telling it to use the host GPU, launching the virtual device from the command line instead of the GUI, and double checking that I have the correct version of the build tools for the version of Android I'm attempting to run.
As a test I've just run the emulator by itself without an app and have discovered that it still shows a white screen even when it is apparently running, somehow. The first image is what I get when I press the Screenshot button. The second image is what I actually see on my desktop. It's been like this for over 10 minutes.
Any advice? I've been Googling like crazy and can't seem to work this out.
Have you tried simply changing the renderer?
Go on the sidebar menu, click the 3 dots>Settings>Advanced and try changing the OpenGL ES Renderer
I installed android studio 1.5.1. Running windows 10 on an AMD, so no hardware acceleration on the emulation. Googling it, I find I can use ARM instead of x86 emulation. But whenever I try to add a device using it, the Actions column shows "repair device". If I click View Details, nothing happens. There is an image showing that there's some kind of error (yield sign with !) but I can't seem to do anything with it to see the error. Double clicking on it just opens it in edit mode but gives me no information about what's wrong.
Any ideas?
This happened to me in 2022! I solved it by clicking the edit button on the emulator device and changing the emulated hardware(phone) to something else. It refreshed and the error sign left.
Do close the running emulator before doing this though. If the error persists, you may want to remove the particular AVD and get a different one.
I recently switched to Android Studio and noticed that the tool windows have a Docked Mode option when I click on the little Gear icon in each tool window.
I personally prefer the Un-Docked Mode(as the tool window minimizes conveniently when I click in the editor) and set every tool window(except the Project Explorer) to be Un-Docked.
But every time I restart Android Studio it irritatingly converts all Tool Windows back to Docked Mode.This was very easy to do in Eclipse but after searching online for quite a bit, I still don't know how to save the UnDocked mode for Tool Windows in Android Studio. Any ideas how to solve this?
Today's update to Android Studio 0.5.5 fixed the problem for me! Now Android Studio always remembers to save the state of the tool windows!
Unlike #kpsfoo, I want the tool window on the docked mode, but I did something and wasn't able to go back... Finally I went to file > settings > I did search for "docked" in the search box and created a keyboard shortcut. This way I'm able to quickly switch on and off the docked mode.
I hope it could help somebody...