I started with android studio and while I try to create a new device the AVD manager showing only one target i,e 4.2.2 as shown in the following figure. But in eclipse it is showing all the options.
. How to create a new emulator the target 2.3.3.
Because both SDK folders are separately located. If you look close you will see that there is an SDK folder inside the Android Studio installation. The target OS directly loaded from this location.
To show additional options in the target dropdown list, e.g. Android 2.2 (API Level 8) and Android 4.0 (API Level 14), you need to download those versions through SDK Manager first.
Only you download those SDK versions like 2.2 and 4.0, then they will show up as options in AVD Manager for you to create new devices of those versions.
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in Eclipse, I have installed the latest version Android 5.0.1(API 21) and created an AVD. However to test backward compatibility I need to create an AVD for older Android 4.0 (API 14), which is also installed in Eclipse. However, when go open Andriod AVD Manager and say create, in the Target pulldown menu, I do not see Android 4.0 (API 14) and therefore unable to create a AVD to support Android 4.0 (API 14). Can someone tell me how to do this please?
check whether Google API 14 in installed on your device.
Click Android SDK Manager, u can see SDK Manager, u can see Android 4.0(API 14) u can see Google APIs should be installed then only u can install the AVD otherwise u cannot create a AVD
If you want to create an AVD in Eclipse you need to do this:
Go to Window -> Android Virtual Device Manager
Then you need to give a name and select the platform that you want (Target option)
Then the button "Create AVD" activates.
The other options modify if u need
You can do following steps:
1. Open SDK Manager as this screen:
You must install SDK, Arm system image or Intel system image whose version as you need (mine is 21 and you is 14) for run emulator
2. Open AVD Manager and click "Create"
3. enter name, choose target and other properties. Then you have your emulator
Hope this help! And dont foget to mark this is answer if you archived your goal!
I have updated my SDK to Android Lollipop. I am able to See Target API 21 in Android SDK Manager when I access it from the directory where it is saved however when I create a new project in Eclipse it does not show Target API 21. Neither it Runs Emulator Created for API 21. I am done with restating my eclipse many times. Any one having any idea what could be wrong??
Thanks
I was facing the same problem, my android sdk manager is not showing new API,
1. Solution Just click on the following icon Android SDK Manager. It will show all the packages.
2. Open SDK Manager click tools in the top menu -> options and turn on "forse h ttps://...sources"
I have downloaded Android 4.4 (KITKAT). There is an android-19 system image in folder called system-images in android installed location in my pc.
I need to use this Android 4.4 system image to test my app on the Android emulator.
How can I use this ? How can I create an AVD using this ?
Finally I am able to run AVD with android-19.
Previously I was edit the existing AVD and changed Target to Android 4.4 - API Level 19. It's not loaded the AVD.
Now I created a new AVD with Target Android 4.4 - API Level 19. It takes a few minutes to display the android kitkat home screen. But it worked as charm.
I am new to android development, and I am trying to create an AVD for testing an app before pushing it to my phone (htc desire running android 2.3.5).
I am using the ADT bundle, and with SDK manager I have downloaded these:
4.2.2 (API 17)
4.1.2 (API 16)
2.3.3 (API 10)
2.2 (API 8)
But when trying to select target of the AVD, the only available options are API 17,16 and 8.
What is wrong?
Update:
I've already tried deleting and redownloading the API and it shows up in the android-sdk/platforms dir.
Restart eclipse after install packages i also have same problem and after restart eclipse i got all api levels in drop down list
I had the same problem because I had downloaded the sdk twice and my SDK manager kept updating first SDK while my IDE was working with the other one. SO check the preferences of your IDE and see if it points to the correct one. (in Eclipse go to windows> preferences> SDK location)
For Android 2.3.3, there will be three entries of relevance in the SDK Manager:
"SDK Platform", which for older API levels like 10 will contain the ARM emulator image
"Google APIs", which will contain an emulator image that has Google Maps in it
"Intel Atom x86 System Image", which will contain an emulator image that runs x86 opcodes instead of ARM opcodes (and, with the proper setup of your development machine, can run the emulator much faster)
If you install one or more of these, you should get API Level 10 appearing an an option for setting up an AVD.
If that does not work, you might consider editing your question and posting screenshots of your SDK Manager (specifically the 2.3.3 portion) and the AVD Manager (specifically your drop-down of available API levels).
Try updating the 2.3.3 API.
And you can also try to use BlueStacks if you wish to first test your app before trying it on your device.
Delete that api from SDK Manager and download it again.
I am newbie to android. I working on my HELLO WORLD project. Initially I had AVD which looks like
Then something went wrong so I deleted all Android stuff from Eclipse (except my project) then I added all things again to my Eclipse.
So now I have:
1) Android SDK tools , revison 12
2) Android SDK platform-tools,revision 6
3) SDK platform Android 3.2,API 13,revision 1
Now I got a new emulator which looks like a tablet emulator .
So my questions are
1) How can I get the previous emulator as Image 1 ( which looks like phone not tablet) ?
2) I am also getting error "Unable to resolve target Android-8". Why it is ? and how to get rid of it ?
Answers to your questions:
Ad 1) You need to install SDK platform for Android 1.x/2.x, Android 3.0 is dedicated to tablets so there will be no phone-like emulator,
Ad 2) Android-8 means Android API Level 8, this means Android SDK version 2.2.x. so you will need to install SDK for Android 2.2.x from the Android SDK Manager
More about Android API levels can be found here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html
1.when creating avd you are selecting target.If you select target 2.1,2.2..You will see the first emulator and for the later one your are selecting taget 3.2 . So it looks like this.
2.You are importing/creating project from previous one whose target was api level 8.Now you are trying to run it in avd which is some other.So in manifest file set minSDK as your new avd
With the SDK manager, you have to create a new virtual device. For this virtual device you will set the Android version of your device (must be < 3 to have the "old" look).
It is simple
1) Create AVD
2) While creating if u want to develop for smart phone, select the target version <= 2.3 (Which will get you the keyboard)
3) While creating if u want to develop for tablet, select the target version as >= 3.0, which will get you the big pad emulator with no keypad.
Note: From Icecream sandwidch onwards the version is for both Smart phones and Tablets.
Regards,
SSuman185
You need to create new AVD with the target that you need,or edit the settings of the AVD that you are using now.
In Eclipse go to menu : Window -> Android SDK and AVD Manager and you will see a list of your AVD(if you have more than one).And after that you can select the one that you have,and press edit with changing the target to 1.5 and upper version or create a new one pressing button New.