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Unable to deploy to Genymotion device through Android Studio

I'm currently using Genymotion with Android Studio via the Genymotion plugin to try to test and debug my Android applications. I set up the Android Studio Genymotion plugin a while ago, and it worked. However, just now I tried to deploy my application to Genymotion, but after starting my Genymotion device, it did not appear in the ADB deployment list. I have no idea what happened or why. Does anyone have any idea?
By the way, this means I cannot test my application, as I cannot use the regular ADB virtual device set as per this other continuing issue: How to create an Android AVD without HAXM?
Thanks!

It is potentially an incompatibility problem between the adb shipped with Genymotion and the one from your Android SDK.
Turn all your Genymotion devices off.
Then open Genymotion application (not the IDE plugin), go to settings > adb tab > check "use custom adb" and set the path to yout Android SDK.
Then reopen a device and you should see it on your IDE.

Genymotion Device doesn't appear on Device Chooser - Android Studio

I installed Genymotion with a virtual Box and the Genymotion plugin (Android Studio), created a new device and runs properly, even from Android Studio.
However when I hit the Run button, the Genymotion device does not appear on the Device Chooser, it says 'Nothing to Show' under the 'Choose a running device' radio button. How can I get the Genymotion device to appear on the Device Chooser and run my app? Is it something I am missing from the SDK manager?

This happens because Genymotion is shipped with outdated Android tools. To solve follow the steps:
Open Genymotion app,
Go to Settings -> ADB
Select 'Use custom Android SDK tools'
And select location of your Android SDK.
On Mac with a recent version of Studio that would be:
/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/

I had the same problem,
but I solved it.
Before running genymotion you have to first click on run and wait until project compile and show you the empty device list and then you have to start your genymotion, after that it will appear.
click the run button to compile project
device empty list appear
start genymotion
device will appear in the list
That worked for me. Hope it helps.

Got the same issue on AS 3.3.2, I tried to select location of the Android SDK, or kill / restart the server. Still they didn't work.
After that, I install the genymotion plugin in AS and open the genymotion device manager, then check the actual ip address of the active genymotion device.
adb connect device_ip_address:5555
Now the device can be detected on device chooser.
P.S. Thanks #Ismail Iqbal for pointing out that the genymotion plugin is not necessary. You can also get the ip address from the emulator header.

I also am facing the same issue in new version of Android studio. following is my routine that everyday i am doing to solve this issue:
Click Run icon to see empty list of device
Close this list
Kill adb by:
adb kill-server
Sometime you need to run this command twice.
Start adb again by:
adb start-server
Click run again. Now I will see list of my emulators but not my Genymotion that is already up and running!
I will add my Genymotion by:
adb connect 192.168.56.101
This command has to be run when select device dialog is still open.
Now everything will be OK.

On Android Studio 2 :
Click on button "Attach debugger to Android process" on Toolbar.
Click restart.
Try run again.
Goodluck.

Tools->Android-> Remove check "Enable ADB Integration"
Run your app with appeared device.( you will get an error)
Set check "Enable ADB Integration"
Run your app

You can solve it quickly.
First make sure that genymotion emulator is opend.
close device chooser (On andoid studio)
open task manager(on windows ctrl + shift + esc)
pick process tab
find adb.exe maybe its adb.exe*32
right click and select kill process tree
adb will again appear shortly kill its process tree again( maybe
more than one adb will be found kill all.)
then open device chooser (click run on android studio).

I solved mine by:
First start android studio before starting genymotion. Then run the app in android studio and wait until you see the device chooser then start genymotion

Just in case someone is still looking for an answer. The software versions in which i faced the above issuue is -
Android Studio - 3.3.2
Genymotion - 3.0.1
So, now let's start with the problem. Just try the following steps:
Check if you have enabled Genymotion Plugin in Android Studio. For Windows, go to File -> Settings -> Plugins -> Search for Genymotion and see if it is checked. If you can't find it, Click on Browse repositories , search for Genymotion and install it.
Check the tick in the plugin:
Check if the Genymotion Emulator is running or not and Genymotion Main Screen shows status as Running or ON
(This was my problem. Although my emulator was up and running but Genymotion's Status was showing Booting). It usually takes some time to get the status from Booting to ON
Check for emulator status:
Check if your Min SDK Version is less than the Emulator's SDK Version. I faced it quite a lot in my initial days. For that, Go to your Module:app gradle file and see the Min SDK Version and the Emulators SDK Version is same or higher.
Check for Min SDK Version as highlighted in the image:
Hope this helps. If you still get any problem do let me know.

When you close the device, it is no longer available to the device chooser. You need to keep running the device from Android Studio.

I tried adb kill-server/start-server. But, It didn't worked.
Instead hitting this command 2-3 times quickly worked.
adb reconnect

In my case the genymotion path was not set ..so I solved it by clicking the genymotion icon from the tool bar and enter the path (the default in windows is C:\Program Files\Genymobile\Genymotion) then after starting the emulator it now appears in android studio

First you will have to run the genymotion from the android studio by pressing the genymotion icon after genymotion starts then press the run button, you will see the genymotion device option on deployment target dialog box.

In addition to the answers of this question :
My problem was about windows viruses , Last days i turned off my windows defender and i have't any other antivirus software in my system .
My SDK folder was full of virus , when i scanned Many viruses detected .
After removing viruses from my PC i had to remove SDK completely and download it again .
Finally notice that : For any reason , if the SDK files are
damaged may cause this error .
Now the problem is solved .

For This Problem:
Go to Project structure/project
In project SDK select simulator API version.
Done. Now your genydevice is added in the list.

I've tried from the android studio version 2.0 and the version 2.1, both does not compitable to genymotion. please use the version 1.5.1 or older than that.

Android studio: emulator is running but not showing up in Run App "choose a running device"

I have launched my emulator via the AVD manager and once it's running I have clicked on run app. I have waited a couple of minutes for my running device to show up in choose a running device but the window always stays blank.

Probably the project you are running is not compatible (API version/Hardware requirements) with the emulator settings. Check in your build.gradle file if the targetSDK and minimumSdk version is lower or equal to the sdk version of your Emulator.
You should also uncheck Tools > Android > Enable ADB Integration
If your case is different then restart your Android Studio and run the emulator again.

This thread helped me to solve my problem, in particular this answer:
In Android Studio go to Menu -> Tools
Android
Uncheck Enable ADB Integration

Had similar issue with my emulator.
Solved by Wiping Data of emulator
Tool > ABD Manager > Down arrow under Action Wipe Data
Note : This is remove all data inside emulator.

For anyone else having the issue - none of the answers provided worked for me.
My case may be different to others but I had Android Studio installed first which installs the SDK by default to: C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Android\sdk. We then decided to use Xamarin for our projects, so Xamarin was installed and installed an additional SDK by default, located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk.
Changing Xamarin to match the same SDK path worked for me which I did in the registry (although through the VS settings I'd guess it's the same):
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Android SDK Tools\Path
Change the path to match the Android Studio SDK path, close everything, start the VS Emulator, run Android Studio, ensure ADB integration is off and try. It worked for me.

If you uncheck the ADB Integration, you cannot use the debug any more.You may just restart the adb server, run
$adb kill-server
$adb start-server
in Terminal to restart the adb server without restarting the Android Studio. Then the emulator shows up.

My emulator used to suddenly disappear but the app still continues to run.
Solution-
Open task manager and kill qemu-system (Under Android Studio). This will stop the emulator. Then restart emulator.

Your adb connection is broken.
close eclipse
open cmd-prompt type adb kill-server then adb start-server
reopen eclipse
run the project!

Wipe the data of your Android virtual Device and then start the emulator. Works for me.

I had the same issue on a brand new computer, and the reason was simple. Although I downloaded and unzipped the Android SDK, I didn't add it to the PATH. So:
On Windows, you have to launch envvar and there, add the path to your android/platform-tools
On MacOS, edit the .zshrc file in your home, and add
export PATH="$PATH:/your/own/path/to/android/platform-tools"

This answer is not proposing a solution. Just a workaround in case someone is looking
I am using Idea based Android Studio (some people are talking about eclipse one here)
When I launch the app in the emulator (using the Run App button of Android Studio) AVD shows up but the app does not launch or run.
However when I connect my mobile and launch the app on my mobile the App works (this itself took some time, enabling developer options on mobile and doing the right configuration)
Because My app is launching on connected mobile, I can say nothing wrong with App.
There is some problem with AVD integration which I could not figure out so As of now I am working around my problem following way.
1 - I installed the app manually by dragging the APK file on AVD. (APK file is app\build\outputs\apk\debug folder)
2 - Then my AVD was not showing the installed APP list.
3 - I searched my APP using Google bar on AVD and dragged the APP icon on the home screen of AVD.
4 - I can now launch the APP using my APP icon on the home screen of AVD.
**That's how I am working around my problem. **
I have verified that Run App Icon does install the Application. Installation, not launching, appears to be the problem for me.

try to open the emulator and run it parallel with android studio/eclipse and the option will be displayed to select in the choose the device(emuator name, mine is Genymotion).

Check the android path of the emulator.
I had to change the registry in here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > WOW6432Node > Android SDK Tools
to the actual path of the sdk location (which can be found in android studio: settings-> System Settings -> Android SDK)
All the credit goes to the author of this blogpost www.clearlyagileinc.com/

start device from genymotion button (have to install genymotion before and setup genymotion folder location on settings)
run application
choose genymotion running device

in your device you want to run app on
Go to settings
About device >> Build number triple clicks or more
and back to settings you will found "Developer options" appear
go to and click on "USB debugging"
Done

Installing apk on emulator in mac

I have followed following tut to install messaging-simulator.apk on my Nexus 7 emulator of adt sdk...
http://www.orhancanceylan.com/installing-and-testing-apk-files-to-the-android-emulator-on-mac/
But, after the device (virtual) is launched (which is annoyingly slow), no further action could be performed from terminal as it gets stuck or no progress is shown. (Basically, I am stuck after ./android command. Nothing can be entered in terminal after that. How do i resolve this?

If you can't type a thing in the terminal - just open a new Terminal window and type it there.
A few tips that will speed up your emulator
Make your emulator as intel x86. and check Use host GPU
Install HAXM from the sdk manager
make the settings like this:
I use mac to develop Android.

Thanks a ton to #Uriel Frankel. Yet, all those tips and tricks given by him did not work out for me due to low memory in my macbook.
So I have used Genymotion emulator(http://techapple.net/2014/05/3-best-android-emulators-for-mac-os-macbook-run-and-install-android-app-on-your-mac-os-x-macbook-airpro/) instead of default android emulator and successfully launched the app by installing it.
You can all try above solution first and if it did not work out, use Genymotion, it's cool :)

Start my application on genymotion

I have just installed genymotions, but when I try to start my app on it, as described at the end of this paragraph, eclipse starts the old emulator even if the new one(genymotion) is running. I tried to change the debug configuration but the only virtual devices that I can see in target are the old emulators(see the photo below).
If in target i follow this answer, I get the following error :
[2014-01-30 19:50:00 - HelloWorld] No active compatible AVD's or devices found. Relaunch this configuration after connecting a device or starting an AVD.
Moreover I followed the FAQs that suggests how to bing the SDK. I show my configuration in the second photo.
The devices shown in the photo are all made with AVD, there aren't the one of genymotion and neither the one that is running:
Here I put the configurations of genymotion:
How can I say to eclipse to start the genymotion emulator and not the AVD one?

Looking at your screenshot I think you should unselect all the AVDs displayed on the list. The option you chose launches the best selected AVD by default, and optionally a device.
Also, the Genymotion instances are considered as real devices by ADB and ADT. So, as GhostDerfel mentioned, you need to run one of them before running your app on Genymotion instance.
To know all the detected devices by ADB you can look at the "Devices" section of DDMS. If a Genymotion device is detected, it should show a name like this : genymotion-galaxy_s3....
You can also run this command adb devices. The result should show something like this:
List of devices attached
192.168.56.102:5555 device
Each Genymotion machine is listed by its local IP address here.
If you can't find your Genymotion instance(s), check that you have the lastest version of Genymotion. A ADB detection bug has been fixed on the release 2.0.2

I had the same problem, i solved it by closing Genymotion and starting it from Genymotion Virtual Device Manager in Eclipse

i also had this problem and all tried all the above solutions and still was not working.but finally i read in the genymotion manual that u can simply drag and drop ur apk to the device and it will load and run.so i tried that and not only it worked it also seemed to solve the path problem also so that when ever i run the project it will automatically detect my device created by genymotion.

I can resolve by connecting a real device one time.

You need to install the genymotion plugin. In android studio File>Settings>Plugins>Browse Repositories > install genymotion plugin. once installed a genymotion button should appear in android studio.I hope that helpfull for you.