Android Emulator Jenkins Plugin not working

Question

I am trying to use the Jenkins Android Emulator with Cloudbees and I am often experiencing this kind of output:

error: device offline
$ /opt/android/android-         


        

Answer 1

Experiencing the same issue, using the Jenkins Android Emulator Plugin v2.13 with emulators running android-19 and above.

I found an open Jenkins ticket to fix the issue here.

Looks like a fix would require an update to the Android Emulator Plugin. In the meantime one workaround is to use a pre-android-19 emulator - I have not had the issue on android-16, android-17 or android-18 emulators.

An alternative workaround is to try downgrading the Android Emulator Plugin to v2.10, as @zachgeek suggested.

Answer 2

I started having the same problem after upgrading the Android Emulator plugin to 2.11.1. Downgrading to 2.10 via the plugin manager has proved itself to be an acceptable workaround for me.

Answer 3

The Jenkins Android Emulator issues I have had are legion. Here is a checklist to help:

1) You need the --all flag for both android list and android update sdk, otherwise some packages will not be installed: ex for SDK 24

1a)$ANDROID_HOME/tools/android list sdk --all

1b)

(for i in {1..100}; do echo y; sleep 1; done) |
$ANDROID_HOME/tools/android update sdk --no-ui --all --filter 
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,23,24,25,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,79,80,81,82,82,84,85,101,102,103,112,113,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124

If you get the dreaded /home/jenkins/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-XXXX shell getprop dev.bootcomplete error: device offline error, you are likely missing a package in step 1b

2)Ignore the dreaded Failed to Initialize backend EGL display error, it is a red herring

3)Be sure to use the Advanced Emulator options:

Emulator Options: -no-audio -gpu off
Emulator executable: emulator64-arm
Startup delay: 10  -- this *may* help

4)a pre-build script ${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools/adb kill-server can't hurt

Good luck!