Android Emulator On M1 Mac

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  • The team behind the Dolphin emulator has developed a native version for Apple’s M1 Macs. Expect major performance gains over Intel-based Macbook Pro models and Dolphin under Rosetta.
  • Here’s one way you can run some Windows applications on an M1 Mac: By using CodeWeavers Crossover for Mac. This application is based on the open-source Wine software that became famous for letting Linux users run some Windows applications without Windows itself.

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Yesterday the emulator was working perfectly. The system image was arm64-v8a. I don’t exactly remember the Release name of the working system image but, yesterday there was an update for the ARM 64 system image which I accepted and the release name is “S”.

I can start the emulator from my AVD Manager, the emulator also starts when I press the ‘Run app’ button however, the app isn’t loaded on the emulator and the emulator appears offline if I check through “adb devices” or if I click on “Troubleshoot Device connections” it shows:

“emulator-5554 – Device is currently in the offline state”

I have tried most of the suggestions found on StackOverflow like:

Android Emulator Mac M1 Download

  • adb kill-server, adb start-server

  • Remove and re-create AVD device

  • Invalidate Caches/Restart

  • Enable USB debugging inside the emulator

  • Wipe data and cold boot from AVD manager

    I am using Android Studio 4.1.3

    Build #AI-201.8743.12.41.7199119, built on March 10, 2021Runtime version: 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6915495 x86_64VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.omacOS 10.16GC: ParNew, ConcurrentMarkSweepMemory: 1981MCores: 8Registry: ide.new.welcome.screen.force=true, external.system.auto.import.disabled=trueNon-Bundled Plugins: org.jetbrains.kotlin

AVD:

Android Emulator On M1 Machines

Emulator

Any idea what has gone wrong? Or how to tackle this issue?

Answer

Nox

Android Emulator Apple M1

Replace the avd system images you have downloaded with the r02 images. r03 is broken for me but reverting to r02 saved the day!

Android Studio Emulator Mac M1

With the latest android (4.1.3) on macOS, the directory you want to put the unzipped images in is probably something like ~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-S.

For example, the path for the google play image is ~/Library/Android/sdk/system-images/android-S/google_apis_playstore/arm64-v8a