I’m trying to get into Android app developing. My first problem is actually getting the emulator to run. I am using the official Hello World tutorial to get me started, and it works fine with my 4.0.3 AVD, but when I try it with a new 2.1 AVD (also created the project from start using 2.1), the emulator doesent load up.
Although it tries to load, the “Android” letters from the start are not with the usual font, they just apear as a “Typewriter” type font with a underscore after, and when they disapear, nothing shows up. I have waited up to 1 hour for it to boot, to no avail.
I already searched stackoverflow for answers, but since I dont have a significant error showing up, I can’t find the answer.
My log is the following:
[2012-02-07 11:23:09 - Hello World 21] Android Launch!
[2012-02-07 11:23:09 - Hello World 21] adb is running normally.
[2012-02-07 11:23:09 - Hello World 21] Performing com.hello.world.HelloWorld21Activity activity launch
[2012-02-07 11:23:09 - Hello World 21] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with compatible AVD '2.1'
[2012-02-07 11:23:09 - Hello World 21] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device '2.1'
[2012-02-07 11:23:14 - Emulator] emulator: WARNING: Unable to create sensors port: Unknown error
[2012-02-07 11:23:14 - Hello World 21] New emulator found: emulator-5554
[2012-02-07 11:23:14 - Hello World 21] Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched...
Running Eclipse Classic with the ADT plugin, and the normal Android SDK, following every instruction on http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html .
Thank you!
I have encountered a similar problem with the emulator startup when using the 64bit version of Windows 7. I couldn’t get it to start with a 2.1 or 2.2 AVD (I experienced a similar behavior as the one you describe), however I did not try an AVD for newer OS versions than 2.3. So if you are running on a 64 bit OS, I would suggest you to try a 32-bit version – it helped in my case.