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Android

Johan Rönkkö
Johan Rönkkö
28,054 Points
Posted by Johan Rönkkö
Johan Rönkkö
28,054 Points

Problem with launching AVD emulator

Hi, i've just started the android studio course but i got an error launching the AVD in emulator. This is my error: Cannot launch AVD emulator. Output: emulator: ERROR: This AVD's configure is missing a kernel file!! emulator: ERROR: ANDROID_SDK_ROOT is undefined. I installed the android studio before and i think i did something wrong. When installing it again it somehow saved my previous installation settings. Should i format my mac from scratch and then install android studio so it wont have any previous settings installed or is it any more efficient way of solving this?

1 Answer

Jeremiah Montano
Jeremiah Montano
7,221 Points

Try going into your SDK Manager and ensuring you have downloaded all the emulator files for your target SDK. They usually have ARM or Intel in the file name. Let us know if that solves the issue.