This seems to be an issue relating to the recent update. A temporary solution is to launch emulator from within the /path/to/android-sdk/tools directory in the commandline. See https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=235461 to follow the issue.
The main root cause of that issue is lack of free space on your disk
Just tried and verified on my Mac, to solve this problem, you need to specify the -kernel path manually. i.e. $ ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/emulator @Galaxy_Nexus_Jelly_Bean_API_16 -kernel ~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-16/default/armeabi-v7a/kernel-qemu Some references for you: Emulator error: This AVD’s configuration is missing a kernel file https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline — Edit — To avoid typing the -kernel argument every time, you can also copy … Read more
Here it is: > adb -s emulator-5554 emu avd name MyDevice OK
May be the following will help : Then start the emulator
The issue is in the your-avd-name.ini that is located at …\<user-profile>\.android on your Windows machine (if you’re Windows user). When any error occurs during the avd.ini parser, the Google ADT plugin tries to access a map that is null. The workaround is to delete the offending .ini file and recreate your avd(s). This information was … Read more
The Best Solution is to use Android Emulator with Intel Virtualization Technology. Now if your system have a Processor that have a feature called as Intel Virtualization Technology, then Intel X86 images will be huge benefit for you. because it supports Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM). To check that your processor support HAXM … Read more
With Android Q, it is impossible to start an activity from the background automatically if your app does not include those exceptions listed in the link below. https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/background-starts Possible Solutions: 1- You can choose just show a service notification, and start pending intent with a click 2- You can use full-screen intents to show your … Read more
The Android emulator doesn’t support it itself but OpenIntents’ SensorSimulator fills the void. Download and unpack the zip file, then start the standalone jar file: $ java -jar bin/sensorsimulator.jar Next, install SensorSimulatorSettings on the emulator using the adb tool which comes with the SDK: $ adb -s <emulator device> install bin/SensorSimulatorSettings.apk (run adb devices to find the … Read more
Another answer here: in my case the problem was simply that the auto-rotate setting in the android emulator settings (accessible pulling down the notification bar) was disabled, my bad.