ERROR : No emulator images (avds) found thrown on windows 8 while opening emulator

Question

I am having one cordova application made in ionic framework i want to test it in emulator som fired command ionic emulate android and it threw following error Error

Answer 1

Just download the Android Studio and create a virtual machine from there. And run the same command(ionic emulate android). Everything should work fine if you do this.

Answer 2

If you can't find the avd manager, go to Help -> Find Action -> avd and click on AVD Manager.

Answer 3

In your terminal try run android avd

Create your emulator and try ionic emulate android again

Answer 4

First of all create the emulator image:

Go to tools folder, i.e: "C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools"

The command is:

android create avd --name thename -k "system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86"

Then emulate:

ionic cordova emulate android

**Make sure to have HAXM accelerator installed: "C:\Users\Myuser\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager"

Answer 5

1) In your command promtp write and enter -android avd-

2) Create your emulator

3) Try -ionic emulate android-