Emulator Appearing Offline on M1 MAC After the Last Update of Arm64-V8A

Emulator appearing offline on M1 Mac after the last update of arm64-v8a

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

Update: It appears r03, r04, and r05 all don't work on m1

Google Play ARM 64 v8a System Image (revision: 2)

Google APIs ARM 64 v8a System Image (revision: 2)

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

Android Studio/Emulator on macOS with ARM CPU M1

Good news !

Edit on 28th of July 2021 /p>

Apple Silicon Support

Now, there is an arm64 release version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1)
You can download it from here https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads

Easy fix to use right architecture

Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools (tab) -> Deselect 'Android Emulator' -> OK

Now, when you try to run your app, or launch device from AVD Manager, it will give the 'Install Emulator' error -> Click Ok. This will automatically download the correct version.

Use an arm64-v8a image !

• Tools -> SDK Manager
• Install Android 11 (R) or 12.0 (S) and click Apply
• Tools -> AVD Manager -> click Create Virtual Device
• Choose any device that has the Google Play Store icon and click Next
• Choose an arm64-v8a on "Other Images" tab

• When NDK runs into Unknown host CPU architecture: arm64 you can solve it here

• kapt doesn't work Solved https://stackoverflow.com/a/68285501/1079990

Android Emulator not working or showing after update Big Sur 11.3

Based on this post this appears to be an issue with some hypervisor entitlements that got updated in OSX 11.3.

Till an official fix is provided in the emulator app, it can be fixed by creating an entitlements.xml file with the following content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>com.apple.security.hypervisor</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

and then running

codesign -s - --entitlements entitlements.xml --force ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/qemu/darwin-x86_64/qemu-system-x86_64

(the path to qemu might need to be adjusted depending on Android SDK's installation path)

This solution was also suggested on other similar posts, I repeated it here for convenience.

Android emulators are not working on macOS Big Sur 11.3+

Update, 10-1-2020

The Android Emulator team has pushed 30.1.5 which fixes this issue in stable. The dev build, 30.2.0 does not contain this fix. It should be available "soon" according to the Googler's working on this.

Another note, if you experience poor performance in your emulator you may wish to try using the host's GPU for rendering. This can be accomplished by running the following command in your terminal where -avd is the name of your emulator device with spaces turned to underscores.

~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/emulator -gpu host -feature HVF -avd pixel_3a_api_29

Old information, kept for educational value:

This is the reference to the commit fixing this issue for Big Sur. This looks like it should be released in the emulator 30.1.5 (see log https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+log/refs/heads/emu-30-release) which should be in the next canary build.

If you can't wait, you should be able to build off that branch. Lightly tested guide heavily pulling from the readme of the repo:

# Get the google repo tool - you can skip if you already have it
curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > /usr/local/bin/repo && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/repo

# Get the code, will take some time. Probably best to go get a coffee here or run on a server if you have poor internet
mkdir -p $HOME/emu-master-dev && cd $HOME/emu-master-dev
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b emu-master-dev
repo sync -j8

# Get XCode 10.1 - required
https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_10.1/Xcode_10.1.xip
sudo xcodebuild -license accept &&
sudo xcode-select --install

# Get MacOS 10.13 SDK which is required
export XCODE_PATH=$(xcode-select -print-path 2>/dev/null)
git clone https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs
cp -r MacOSX-SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/ "$XCODE_PATH/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs"

# Build the emulator, which will be another coffee break...
cd external/qemu && android/rebuild.sh

# run it :)
./objs/emulator -list-avds

Android Emulator Render Issue - After macOS Big Sur Update

It seems that upgrading android studio (4.1.2), the emulator, and SDK tools fixes the issue since 2021.

After updating Android Studio, go to the preferences for Android Studio > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Android SDK > SDK Tools (tab) and select Android Emulator (I used 30.3.5), Android SDK Tools (26.1.1), and maybe the Android SDK Build-tools.

Disclaimer: These steps solved it for me. It might well be that only updating the "Android Emulator" SDK tool would have been enough.

Android Studio [BumbleBee 2021.1.1] Emulator Timeout on Mac M1

I have found the issue so marking this as solved, however, if anyone knows why this solves the problem, please share!

I found an issue opened on Google's anroid-emulator-m1-preview repo with this answer https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/issues/76#issuecomment-1023563846

Turns out, I just needed to uncheck 'Launch in a tool window' but again, not sure why that fixed the issue.

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