What about when the Eclipse ADT plugin calls it? Well I was feeling rather lazy at that point and didn't want to dig around in the ADT plugin to see if it had a 'add these command line flags whenever running the emulator' option, so I made a little 'wrapper' shell script for the emulator command that always adds the -noaudio option. Now, that works if I manually call the emulator from the command line.

No sound support either, but at least I can run the emulator now. Turns out the emulator has a '-noaudio' command line option, and when I ran it with that, it worked!! So now I just run emulator with the -noaudio option always, no freezes.

Copy or remember the path listed in the box that says 'Android SDK Location.' If you are on macOS or Linux, add an environment variable pointing to the Android SDK location in /.bashprofile (or /.zshenv if you use Zsh) - eg. But I decided to try an experiment that one particular day. Click on the 'SDK Tools' tab and make sure you have at least one version of the 'Android SDK Build-Tools' installed. Start Android Studio app, then create a blank project. AVD Manager has a nice interface when started from Android Studio. Android emulators are managed through a UI called AVD Manager.

I was digging around the other day and saw this message appear on the terminal: emulator: warning: opening audio input failed I've seen this message many times before and I had always assumed that it was because the emulator didn't support sound or something like that. The purpose of this section is to guide you to create in your development environment an Android emulator.

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