Android Studio : emulator is already running

Question

I am trying to run emulator on my android studio 8.14. When I click run it says it is already running. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

When you go to the specified location and try to delete those files sometimes you might get an error stating that the file or folder is already open or is used by another application

So the simple Solution is just to go to

Tools > Android > AVD Manager and Stop the AVD that you are trying to run

Then When you try to run the AVD again you might have the problem resolved

Answer 2

This worked for me:

Go to AVD Manager and click on the down-arrow on the right and click Stop. This stops the emulator and you can re-run it.

Answer 3

There are so many answer but i just extending to give answer of this question. What happen is when i follow Android Studio instruction and try to delete that folder Or file but i am not able to delete it, So what am i do is that i open the AVD Manager and click on down arrow which is on right side as you can see in below screenshot and click on stop after click on start and its working fine. There is no need to restart or recreate the AVD.

Answer 4

Run this command and try again:

adb kill-server 

Answer 5

1. Open Settings
2. Goto developer options
3. Click revoke USB debugging authorizations

Answer 6

Thanks everyone.

I removed files of given location. but when I refresh the AVD manager, Existing emulator are all gone.

I recreated new emulator. Now it works fine.