my emulator isn't working I've even created a new project and reopened it. I've reinstalled the studio as well.

it launches and is just black

Do you see any lock in the screen? Sometimes there is a lock like in regular android phones that you manually have to swipe the android phone screen with your mouse. If that is not the issue you can try the suggestion here and see if they work for you.

ok I updated just to make sure I had the latest version and now I'm getting this message

Starting emulator for AVD 'NewAndroid442' Failed to create Context 0x3005 could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer. could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB

that's just when I'm running it

When you created your android device did you choose properties for the CPU/ABI? Also the "use host GPU" checked?

tried it on a completely different machine...

and checked the CPU/ABI and I'm using host GPU

still getting this error when starting the emulator

could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB

Try setting the RAM to 512 Mb and let me know if it works then.

still getting this string of messages

Starting emulator for AVD 'Android442' Failed to create Context 0x3005 emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer. could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB

What version of android studio do you have? Is it the newest version or the one the instructor gave? Also did you add the JDK lib to your environment variables ?

ok the JDK lib i do not know about and I'm using the newest version i think because the one the instructor gave didn't work do I have to reinstall the older version?

Did you do this to when setting up android studio to [put the JDK on your path]? If not then do it and let me know if it helps (https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=studio) "Select Start menu > Computer > System Properties > Advanced System Properties. Then open Advanced tab > Environment Variables and add a new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to your JDK folder, for example C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21."

it's done!

I suggest you try using the one given by the instructor and then upgrade it when you get the notice in the IDE that there is a new update. I tried downloading it from the developers site earlier on, and it was harder to set up (due to it missing some initial configurations that I had to do from scratch), than upgrading the one that was given by the instructor.

I did exactly that. I downloaded the one the instructor gave. There were some upgrades that I ran and I've set up the JDK path. I'm not getting the extensionARB errors anymore but I am getting this

Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?

If you are not having the ARB error...that's great. It means there is progress. For this other error you have, try this.

I'm at a loss... I've tried everything and that last one didn't change anything. The emulator run after doing a clean build and it's been stuck here for the last two hours

Device connected: emulator-5554 Device NewAndroid442 [emulator-5554] is online, waiting for processes to start up..

You can try genymotion if it doesn't feel like working but I will give few last suggestions of what I'd have done.

1st try - On Android Studio select, File >> Invalidate Caches/restarts >> Invalidate and restart - I'd then try to run the emulator again once it restarts and see how it goes, if it doesn't work after 15 min of wait, then i'd...

2nd try - Restart computer, check if it works this time... if it doesn't

3rd option install genymotion. To find out how to do it see the Getting started with genymotion course.

I hope these help.

I'm new and just even learning how to use the forum so be patient.

I'm getting this error in my run tab

Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?