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

If you have special character in your username do this:
~/.android/avd on OS X and Linux, C:\Documents and Settings\user\.android\ on Windows XP, and C:\Users\user\.android\avd on Windows Vista, 7.
There name.ini and name.avd folder
- copy the folder for example: C:\
- modifiy the path in the .ini to path=C:\name.avd

Answer 2

I had a similar problem because of non-latin letters in my username. When opening the ini-file in a text editor I found the non-latin characters was wrong. So I just changed the path from path=c:\Users\YourNa¤%"%¤%%¤me.android\avd\YourAVDName.avd to path=c:\Users\YourName.android\avd\YourAVDName.avd and it worked.

Answer 3

The solution (that worked for me) was to add the following missing entries in my avd's config.ini:

image.sysdir.2=system-images/android-14/armeabi-v7a/
image.sysdir.1=add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-14/images/armeabi-v7a/

Answer 4

One way is to don't exit the emulator after running. You edit the program without closing emulator. Do it every time.

Answer 5

Try to download again the SDK, unzip it and reinstall through Eclipse.

Be sure to have the last version and have configured all the paths in Eclipse preferences correctly.