Trouble getting Android emulator to run in eclipse

Question

I\'m trying to run the SDK Samples on the Emulator in Eclipse 3.5.

Most of the time the AVD Manager hangs when I try to create a new AVD. When I manage to create an

Answer 1

You have to use Android tool from sdk\tools folder to move your AVD device to some Folder with no foreign characters in the path.

Just type android move avd -n "nameofdevice" -p "newpath"

For example: android move avd -n HTDDESIRE -p C:\HTCDESIRE

Answer 2

This solved it for me on IOS: I looked in the actual .ini file for the device (Nexus-7-inch-tablet.ini) which looked like:

avd.ini.encoding=ISO-8859-1
target=android-17
path=/Users/stevensanborn/.android/avd/Nexus-7-inch-tablet.avd
path.rel=avd/Nexus-7-inch-tablet.avd

and removed and extra return space in the file. Resaved it and worked. Ridiculous.

Answer 3

I also had the same problem since my username was in Cyrilic letters Димитров.

I change it to a latin alphabet and then it's OK.

Answer 4

move c:\Users\YourName\.android\avd\YourAVDName.avd manually to c:\Android\YourAVDName.avd then open c:\Users\YourName\.android\avd\YourAVDName.ini and change path from path=c:\Users\YourName\.android\avd\YourAVDName.avd to path=c:\Android\YourAVDName.avd

Answer 5

You can set the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME. For example:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME=D:\Development\android-sdk\

It helped me. Add this variable to <eclipseFolder>\configuration\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME=D\:\\Development\\android-sdk\\

Stop the process adb.exe and (re)start Eclipse.

Answer 6

To make sure everything is installed correctly, I recommend you reinstall all the components. To be sure everything goes correctly follow my step by step instructions on my blog.

http://androidcodemonkey.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-setup-android-development_23.html

If you follow all the steps you should be good to go!

Good luck.