Hey guys I just updated Android Studio, I am glad that they finally fixed the bug where you could not open up the Device Manager. However they changed the look of it and it now comes inside AS or as a much much larger window (see my screenshot).
Is there a way to make it look like it was before? So just the Device with its frame and not that huge window around it? Also Crtl+M doesnt work and Crtl+Upkey/Downkey do not change the size of the emulator like it used to.
Go to Preferences of Android Studio
Search for emulator, or navigate to tools -> Emulator
Uncheck the Launch in a tool window
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I am facing an issue with the Android emulator.
When the emulator boots up everything is fine, regardless the default display orientation.
When I press one of the buttons to change the display orientation, the emulator window rotates but, the content is completely messed up.
See the pic below.
The same happens with all the AVDs I have created and with different android images.
I've already reinstalled/updated the emulator from package manager.
Any idea about why this is happening?
The work environment is:
Mac OS Big Sur,
Android Studio v4.1.1
Android emulator v30.2.6
Thank you for your help.
This was a bug in the Google Android Emulator version 30.2.x.
It was fixed in version 30.3.5 (approximately 8 January 2021). Apply the update like this:
Stop or Force Quit all the running AVD emulators
Android Studio ➔ Tools ➔ SDK Manager ➔ SDK Tools (click this tab in the middle of the dialog) ➔ Android Emulator
The status should say "Update Available"
Click the Checkbox so that it will change from a horizontal line to a checkmark, and so that the download symbol appears on the left.
Click the Apply or OK button
It should download version 30.3.5 or higher, for "Android Emulator".
After the upgrade is applied, relaunch your emulators.
Try running the emulator inside Android Studio. Go to settings-tools-emulator and check the box there to run the emulator inside Android Studio. When you rotate it after it should rotate faster than in the AVD's standalone application, and not break the display. This should fix the broken display problem, without making a new AVD. Make sure you have updated to the most recent version of Android Studio first, v4.1.
The android emulator defaults to have auto rotate turned off. Turn on auto rotate the normal way you would on your phone and it will work.
Currently I have a strange issue on Android Studio 4.1 with my emulators. When I'm trying to change the orientation to landscape the ui of the emulator is completely breaking... This is how it looks like:
Has anyone an idea why this is happening? I changed the emulator performance in the AVD settings to "Software" after that it does not happen but it is very slow.
As already pointed out, setting emulator graphics options to "Software" helps as a temporary fix.
I would like to add that if you can't change the settings in the AVD Configuration (in my case graphics were automatic, the field was readonly), you can do that manually:
on AVD Manager, right-click on the desired device, then "Show on Disk"
look for the config.ini of the device and open it
change "hw.gpu.mode = auto" to "hw.gpu.mode = software"
This worked for me. Hope it helps someone else to avoid headaches.
Hoping you are referring to emulator UI broken ,like this image
For me, clicking on zoom button seems to fix the issue.
I have recently downloaded android studio and whenever i create my virtual device it shows completely blank and it doesn't boot up or something like that enter image description here
you may need to update emulator from sdk manager and update graphic card driver
also you can try this:
when creating new emulator (or you can edit a created emulator) go to:
advanced > Emulated Performance > Graphics
and change it to: software
I am using Android Studio version 2.2.3 and since I have installed it There is no device frame included when we have a preview(as shown in the image). I have tried a lot but there seems to be no option to include a device frame.
Just lost the device skin after updating Android Emulator.
I fixed it by manually editing the AVD config.ini and adding:
skin.name=pixel_4
skin.path=D:\sdk\skins\pixel_4
Posting this so I can find the answer faster next time it happens and maybe help others, it seems it is still a valid bug even with Android Studio Chipmunk
There is no device frame included from the newer version by the Android Studio itself. But, you can still use a skin while using AVD.
DEVICE FRAME CAN BE VIEW BY
1- Click on designer preview window
2 - press F button from your keyboard
this will enable and disable the designer preview device frame every time you press F button from your keyboard.
The story is that I developed an Android program with Android 4.4.2. But some problems was found after installing the program to a device with Android 5.1.1. So I tried to download Android 5.1.1 for my SDK to debug the problem. Then the AVD I kept on using becomes like a mess no matter I changed to different configuration (see picture 1). My AVD configuration is as picture 2.
Hope someone could help... Thank you so much!
Picture 1
Picture 2
Got a temporary way to solve it and don't know if it is correct.
Set the skin to "no skin".
There is another problem happened now. The control bar of that window shows out of the screen. It makes the window cannot be moved. Anyway, I can continue my development job in this way...