Cannot launch emulator on Linux (Ubuntu 15.10)

Using the libstdc++.so.6 that is available in your system instead of the one bundled with the android sdk solves this issue.

  • The emulator has a switch -use-system-libs to do this.

    ~/Android/Sdk/tools/emulator -avd Nexus_5_API_23 -use-system-libs

  • Alternatively you can set the ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS environment variable to 1 for your user/system. This has the benefit of making sure that the emulator will work even if you launched it from within Android Studio.

More details: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197254#c15

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