When I run my hello world application, the android emulator fails to launch.Even when i am creating a new emulator it fails to launch giving me the following error.
[2011-08-09 17:03:10 - Emulator] invalid command-line parameter: Files\Android\android-sdk\tools/emulator-arm.exe.
[2011-08-09 17:03:10 - Emulator] Hint: use '#foo' to launch a virtual device named 'foo'.
[2011-08-09 17:03:10 - Emulator] please use -help for more information
First of all you need to check are you in correct folder?
$...local\Android\sdk\tools\emulator -list-avds
If so it will show you list of emulators that you have in your Android studio you are on right track
Last part for launching an emulator
local\Android\sdk\tools\emulator -avd Nexus_5X(name of your emulator you want to open)
The problem is, that you have specified your SDK in a file what has space, in its name For example: Android SDK You need to change it to something what hasn't got space in its name.
Hope it helps.
Or if you specified it in the Program Files use it:
Progra~1 instead of Program Files.
You are not specifying what AVD to launch. Please read the SDK docs in full, they will show you how to do this.
Tip: Launch the "android.exe" (I think, I use Linux where it's simply "android") app instead, create an AVD and launch it, all from the graphical interface.
The tricky part is finding name #foo
to find exact name of emulator run android command line emulator -list-avds aka ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/emulator -list-avds
2.it will show you emulator names but emulator names that you pass to command line
bonus: you probably will get PANIC error in that case you need to add ANDROID_PATH read more here https://stackoverflow.com/a/49511666/6133329
On windows don't install the Android SDK to a path with spaces in it like C:\Program Files\AndroidSDK. Instead install it to C:\AndroidSDK\ or something like that.
Try this It worked for me...
emulator #avd_name [ {-option [value]} … ]
Type command emulator #youremulatorname
For more Check out this Link
For Windows
Check whether you have an emulator on your PC.
If it is there add the path below to the environment variable
C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator
and
remove C:\Users\deepank\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools
:
Related
I have android studio setup on my Ubuntu machine and now whenever I try to start the emulator, it throws exception like:
Cannot launch AVD in emulator.
Output:
PANIC: Could not find
Nexus_S_API_21.ini file in $ANDROID_AVD_HOME$ nor in $HOME./android/avd
So when I do:
echo $ANDROID_AVD_HOME
It shows empty which means that this path is not set and when $HOME is my /home/user
So when I go in /home/user/.android/avd there is really no .ini file. So, I am confused, when I create a virtual device, where does it go? How can I find the path where virtual devices are being created and if possible, how can I change the path to create virtual devices?
You can find location of your avd's *.ini files in AVD Manager (GUI).
Right under tab "Android Virtual Devices" there is line "List of existing Android Virtual Devices located at %here is the location%".
You can try to change system variable %android_avd_home% to something like /home/user, for example and then restart IDE (Android Studio).
Also, you can try to find useful information here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78577
Hope it helps
I experienced this same issue on OSX, but the weird part was it only happened after I had added the ANDROID_SDK_HOME varible to my environment.
I experimented and found that if I added the ANDROID_AVD_HOME variable to my environment or I removed ANDROID_SDK_HOME, it caused it to start working.
One solution at this problem is to copy the file's emulator which exited and rename it in the name of the new emulator; that is say the android studio name of emulator who is try to run.
NB : Before I suppose you had install the eclipse ADT which contains one or some emulator
Example :
1) cd .android/avd/
2) ls -al
3) cp .ini .ini
4) Finish run the emulator in your android studio by the AVD
This happens on Windows when the user home folder is changed from the default one. To make Android Studio happy just add a system enviroment variable and set it to your home folder, for example:
ANDROID_SDK_HOME = D:\Users\max\
I want to write an Android app and I've started this morning by loading JDK, eclipse, SDK etc, all from the adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219 from http://developer.android.com.
The issue for me right now:
[2013-02-27 13:36:26 - Test2] Android Launch!
[2013-02-27 13:36:26 - Test2] adb is running normally.
[2013-02-27 13:36:26 - Test2] Performing com.example.test2.MainActivity activity launch
[2013-02-27 13:37:27 - Test2] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'droidX2'
[2013-02-27 13:37:27 - Emulator] PANIC: Could not open: droidX2
I've been sifting though posts on the web all morning about AVD and I haven't seen one that didn't involve the path being messed up and the .ini not found. I don't think I've got a path issue. AVD is looking for files on D:\USERS\XXX\.android\avd and that's where the files are. So don't understand why the emulator can't open.
I've done the most basic things like remove and re-install everything, read the notes at orace etc. Basically I'm stuck. Any suggestions here?
adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130219 was what I loaded on Windows 7 (32bit).
I'd settle for testing on the mobile that's connected to the PC but I can't get that to work either!
Any direction appreciated.
This has been asked a few times already, try these:
Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to
C:\Users\Administrator Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click
in Run/Debug and String Substitution Add a new variable called:
user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator Create an AVD and run
it.
Original answer by Colin
an android project member says here:
As a work-around, you can define the environment variable
ANDROID_SDK_HOME to point to the directory containing your .android
directory. The emulator and SDK Manager will pick it up properly.
verify that The location in which the avd was searched from is different from where it is actually created. Take a look at the screenshot below for more information.
ANOTHER OPTION: Symlinking...
In a command prompt (with admin privileges), change directory ("cd") to "C:\Users\YourUserName.android" and then use the following command to create a symlink to the avd directory (notice the direction of the slashes):
mklink /D avd D:\_MyLibrariesDir\.android\avd
Where "_MyLibrariesDir" is the directory that your libraries (photos, documents, etc) folders are located.
And you're done!
Explanation: This has the same effect as the ANDROID_SDK_HOME option except that you can now browse to [C:\Users\YourUserName\.android\avd\*] and [D:_MyLibrariesDir\.android\avd\*] and both will take you to the same spot.
This differs from a shortcut in that shortcuts do not act as directories, so if you just had a shortcut to the "avd" folder, you could not go to "C:\Users\YourUserName\.android\avd*" as it would produce a file not found error and if you tried to click on an avd shortcut file it would take you to [D:_MyLibrariesDir\.android\avd\*] instead of keeping you on the C drive. Symlinks act a bridge between locations in a way that is transparent to user and software. Quite handy :)
I fixed the AVD Panic issue by running Eclipse as an administrator.
On Ubuntu check the current user if you run eclipse as root (sudo) eclipse could NOT find the /root/.android set the user home
user.home /home/<user>/
and copy the AVD files into the new directory than changes the privileges
cd /home/<user>/
chgrp <user> -R .android
chgrp <user> -R .android
Simply if nothing works for you, just copy the folder avd which you could find in your .android folder to C:\Users\<user name>\.android.
Pls check once in Ur ".android" folder, another/duplicate ".android" folder might have been created. If "YES" is Ur answer then do this thing because in my case that thing was happened.
Simply I just kept only the latest ".android" folder in this directory "C:\Users\USER NAME\" (removed the duplicated one) and then emulator started working for me.
Cheers
try to add new windows admin user with English language only
it worked for me
the user name should be in English letters
Found a simple way to make it work - worth trying:
1. If you do not have it yet - create a new AVD with the problematic name (in this case droidX2) if you see an overwrite warning - overwrite it.
2. Delete the new AVD you just created in step 1.
3. If you have another AVD it's OK, if not - create one.
4. Retry running the Eclipse project as an Android application - now it should run
Setting the ANDROID_SDK_HOME environment variable alone works fine for Win7 and earlier but did not help me on Win8.
For poor tortured souls using the piece of crap which is Windows 8, go to wherever you've installed the Android SDK (e.g. C:\SDK\Android or C:\Users\JoeCitizen\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk) and make sure both AVD Manager.exe and SDK Manager.exe are set to run as Administrator for all users. Once I did that it worked fine.
Yet another deceptive problem-which-shouldn't-be-a-problem caused by the complete fail which is permission management circa Windows 8.
Using Windows 7, Eclipse, Android SDK tools 23.0.4
First time I followed the exact instruction on http://developer.android.com/training/index.html
I got the error "PANIC: could not open.." whenever 'Start' emulator.
Solution: System property popup/Enviroment Variables/ System variables, Added new entry
name="ANDROID_SDK_HOME", value = "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser\"
Then it starts work!
"D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser\" is parent folder where ".android/avd" folder exists.
avd folder path here is "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser.android\avd"
Note that you must put "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser\", not "D:\DATA\Users\ThisUser**.android**"
Getting NullPointerException when trying to start avd. I just downloaded the ADT bundle for Mac and ran android avd. Anyone know why it would fail?
$ ./android avd
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.android.sdklib.internal.avd.AvdInfo.getDeviceName(AvdInfo.java:158)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.DeviceManagerPage.fillDevices(DeviceManagerPage.java:497)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.DeviceManagerPage.fillTable(DeviceManagerPage.java:357)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.DeviceManagerPage.createContents(DeviceManagerPage.java:259)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.DeviceManagerPage.<init>(DeviceManagerPage.java:130)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.AvdManagerWindowImpl1.createDeviceTab(AvdManagerWindowImpl1.java:210)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.AvdManagerWindowImpl1.createContents(AvdManagerWindowImpl1.java:193)
at com.android.sdkuilib.internal.repository.ui.AvdManagerWindowImpl1.open(AvdManagerWindowImpl1.java:133)
at com.android.sdkuilib.repository.AvdManagerWindow.open(AvdManagerWindow.java:94)
at com.android.sdkmanager.Main.showAvdManagerWindow(Main.java:369)
at com.android.sdkmanager.Main.doAction(Main.java:311)
at com.android.sdkmanager.Main.run(Main.java:119)
at com.android.sdkmanager.Main.main(Main.java:102)
The following worked for me:
From the command line I navigated to the tools folder of the Android-SDK folder. From there I ran this command:
android list avd
This produced a list of all of my virtual devices but one of them showed itself to be the problem. The exact output was as follows:
The following Android Virtual Devices could not be loaded:
Name: Tab31
Path: /Users/User/.android/avd/Tab31.avd
Error: Failed to parse properties from /Users/User/.android/avd/Tab31.avd/config.iniere
If you see this then make note of the "Name" property ("Tab31" in my situation) and run the following command (obviously replacing the name of my AVD with yours):
android delete avd -n Tab31
After that I was able to start the AVD Manager without any problem.
I had this exact same problem last night and finally found the ways to get the emulator to start working:
List the available targets with: android list targets
android create avd -n {name} -t {targetID}
(for {name} I chose Tablet - believe its arbitrary)
== Still wasn't working but then I discovered =>
I right-clicked above the manifest.xml file, selected option Run As ->
Run Configurations -> on a tab Target, and selected AVD created.
(from Eclipse launch error when trying to run an Android app)
If nothing of the above solutions work, deleting the .android folder in the home directory will work
I had this same problem after moving around my Android SDK and changing the base directory by setting the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME. Turns out there is a path inside of the following file (path below ANDROID_SDK_HOME).
.android/avd/nameofphone.ini
The "path=" setting in that file is absolute, so if you move around your files it will not be correct anymore. Changing that to the correct absolute path to the avd-file in the same directory fixed my issue.
It's usually because creation of a new AVD failed or the configs for one of your AVDs is corrupted.
Go to ~/.android/avd
Check the list of AVDs. If you think one of those AVDs is causing the problems, sudo rm -r (UNIQUE PART OF AVD NAME)*
This removes that AVD. Then re-try android avd
#BreakingBad's solution works fine except when the config is corrupted
It looks like this issue has been fixed in version 21.0.1 preview 1 of the SDK Tools.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40400
The most likely cause is an invalid properties file that could not be parsed by the AVD Manager. Updating to the Preview Channel of the SDK Tools should fix this, or you can just wait for the official release.
Once I updated, the AVD Manager started and showed an invalid AVD in my list, which I was able to delete.
Does not pop up the emulator. however, I see the following error message instead.
[2011-11-10 21:03:19 - Emulator] invalid command-line parameter: Files\Android\android-sdk\tools/emulator-arm.exe.
[2011-11-10 21:03:19 - Emulator] Hint: use '#foo' to launch a virtual device named 'foo'.
[2011-11-10 21:03:19 - Emulator] please use -help for more information
Thanks StackOverflow
It's because you've installed the android sdk into your Program Files folder. You should install it into a path with no spaces, C:\android-sdk or something.
To break it down, it's calling the executable without quotes around the path to the file, i.e. C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools/emulator-arm.exe is viewed without quotes as calling the program C:\Program with the parameter of Files\Android\android-sdk\tools/emulator-arm.exe. It's a simple flaw that they haven't fixed in several versions. It's especially problematic sense the installer naturally wants to install in Program Files by default.
When I run my application, I am getting an error. The error is:
invalid command-line parameter:
sw\android-sdk-windows\tools/emulator-arm.exe. Hint: use '#foo' to
launch a virtual device named 'foo'. Please use -help for more
information
What can I do to fix this?
This is because your sdk path in eclipse contains "Program Files", which contains space. Instead of "Program Files" do it PROGRA~1. This should solve the issue.
EDITED
To find the small names of your directories -
Open a command prompt go to your parent directory and fire this command - DIR/X and you will get list of small names for all of your directories. Replace any name with space with the name you get here.
I got the following error in Windows 7 with Android Emulator
invalid command-line parameter:Files.
From Stack Overflow Suggestion I tried the mlink suggestion as follows:
C:>mklink /D "D:\Android\" "c:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\"
In the eclipse Change the location of Android location.
Help --> Prefrences -> SDK Locatoion to D:\Android
Run an application from eclipse, it will show the output in emulator.
(Note : It is not possible to start emulator from SDK Manager Directly)
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