M1 Mac Android Emulator

15-09-2021 admin

Yesterday the emulator was working perfectly. The system image was arm64-v8a. I don’t exactly remember the Release name of the working system image but, yesterday there was an update for the ARM 64 system image which I accepted and the release name is “S”.

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Setup M1 Android Emulator. Go to Tools → AVD Manager, then click +Create Virtual Device. Pick a device definition you like, e.g., Pixel 5. Pick a system image whose ABI is arm64-v8a. If you can't find any of them, check out the 'Other Images' tab. Download the ‘S’ or ‘R (30)’ API level. The emulator works great, its super fast, so much more than what I have used in my windows machine. And regarding the full screen halt its due to macos big sur. Had that issue on my old mac. Run this command on the terminal and it wont happen again defaults write com.google.android.studio AppleWindowTabbingMode manual. Download Emulator Free For Mac. Free and safe download. Download the latest version of the top software, games, programs and apps in 2021.

I can start the emulator from my AVD Manager, the emulator also starts when I press the ‘Run app’ button however, the app isn’t loaded on the emulator and the emulator appears offline if I check through “adb devices” or if I click on “Troubleshoot Device connections” it shows:

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“emulator-5554 – Device is currently in the offline state”

I have tried most of the suggestions found on StackOverflow like:

adb kill-server, adb start-server
Remove and re-create AVD device
Invalidate Caches/Restart
Enable USB debugging inside the emulator
Wipe data and cold boot from AVD manager
I am using Android Studio 4.1.3
Build #AI-201.8743.12.41.7199119, built on March 10, 2021Runtime version: 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6915495 x86_64VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.omacOS 10.16GC: ParNew, ConcurrentMarkSweepMemory: 1981MCores: 8Registry: ide.new.welcome.screen.force=true, external.system.auto.import.disabled=trueNon-Bundled Plugins: org.jetbrains.kotlin

AVD:

Any idea what has gone wrong? Or how to tackle this issue?

Answer

Replace the avd system images you have downloaded with the r02 images. r03 is broken for me but reverting to r02 saved the day!

With the latest android (4.1.3) on macOS, the directory you want to put the unzipped images in is probably something like ~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-S.