(see Update to Android SDK Tools 23.0.5 and avd doesn't start). Until recently(about 1 month ago), you could do that but with the latest updates, it is not possible. If they did so, or if someone else went to the trouble of setting up and compiling their emulator source with the 'x86' flag on, then _x86 soft emulation could conceivably be made to work again. Google have moved on to an updated version of their emulator based on a more recent version of qemu, and provide binaries for arm and mips emulators, but have omitted to ship the x86 equivalent (there is no emulator-ranchu-x86.exe and emulator64-ranchu-x86.exe). (So this is no help if you need to test on more recent versions of Android). and to buld an AVD using a downgraded system image, for instance. The only way I got this working again was to downgrade the SDK tools to V22.3 from here: You can still force the use of the soft x86 emulator by running it from the command line and using the -no-accel option, i.e.įrom the SDK/tools directory: emulator -avd AVD_NAME -memory 768 -no-accel -gpu onīUT this still won't work with the current (V24) SDK, because the current x86 system images crash the soft x86 emulator :-(
