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Android

Posted by Holly Fox
Holly Fox
2,808 Points

Problem with the emulator in android studio

I have been having issues with android studio for about 3 weeks now. Its frustrating as I'd just finished my first app and wanted to test and develop it.

I am on the latest BETA version 0.8.14 and have all the updates.

The last version was all working fine. After the last update I started having problems with the design file saying there was a problem with the rendering and L library files. When trying to run the emulator the emulator would load but then app wouldn't.I tried commenting out chunks of code and trying again but nothing worked.

I then found 17 package updates in the AVD manager so I downloaded them and the errors went away.

Now I have a problem with the emulator to even start. It just stays as a black screen and does nothing.

I'm not sure if its my old laptop (Acer aspire 5720 laptop about 5 years old) as my friend has the latest update and everything works fine for him. He can't work out whats wrong with my android studio either.

Help! I really don't want to give up but theres not much I can do if I can't get this working!!

1 Answer

Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points

No idea what the problem could be, maybe older laptop. Try to install and run Genymotion it's much better and runs faster (check this course teamtreehouse.com/library/android-tools ).

Holly Fox
Holly Fox
2,808 Points

Hi I brought a new laptop and the problem went away! Might seem a bit extreme but a new one was well overdue! Thanks for replying to me and the tip for Genymotion. For now, everything seems ok! :)