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 … Read more