Android Emulator won't run application started from eclipse

Question

I have followed the \"Hello World\" example from Google\'s Android developer\'s guide. When I try to run the application in the SDK emulator, nothing happens. The emulator s

Answer 1

Same problem. Killing adb from task manager didn't help. Also tried restarting the AVD using android create avd --target 2 --name my_avd --force, no good. Tried the different launch method in Eclipse, nada.

What eventually helped is: I started (from the start menu, not command line) the Android SDK Tools > SDK Manager, found the my_avd under virtual devices, and simply clicked the Start... button. That did it - the emulator started, I ran from Eclipse, and it immediately showed the app on the emulator.