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Not able to launch android emulator
Starting the Android emulator in SDK tools, revision 12
http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html#installing I followed the instructions here for a windows 7 machine using a 64 bit operating system. It’s a clean system install. I first installed the Android SDK and then installed Eclipse and then installed the ADT Plugin.
At first, simply nothing was happening. I’d click window-> android and it’d bring up the list of emulators I had made. I’d select one then click start and nothing. ADB.exe wasn’t even in my systems resources. I made sure Kaspersky had added adb.exe to it’s trusted list and tried again, still no dice.
I then saw an article saying I should move adb.exe from platform-tools to just tools so I tried that. That made it switch from doing nothing (and reporting nothing in the console or logcat) to where it is now. It says
invalid command-line parameter: Files.
Hint: use ‘@foo’ to launch a virtual device named ‘foo’.
please use -help for more information
Any more theories on what I can try would be greatly appreciated.
For further clarification the foo message happened with platform of 2.3.3. or 3.2 selected. When trying platform 3.0 it went back to nothing.
I had this trouble when my SDK was installed in ‘Program Files’.
The invalid command line parameter was the space in the program files part of the argument. I guess Android coming from a Linux world means that whitespace is it’s enemy! Despite this being the default install location.
I moved the whole SDK (emulator included) to the root ‘C:\’ drive. It then started working a treat.