Android/Eclipse PANIC: Could not open

Question

I\'m brand new to Android development and Eclipse so I have just set it all up and I am attempting the Hello World tutorial. Sadly when I try and run the program I get the f

Answer 1

Home Folder Redirection To UNC / AVD Shows UNC Path

If you're unfortunate to have network UNC path mapped as your home directory using Windows Folder Redirection then AVD will fail to start.

You should also have a normal user directory under C:\Users, which contains non-mapped stuff. The trick is for Android SDK to use this instead. Similar to other answers, you need to set ANDROID_SDK_HOME user environment variable to your C:\ based home directory.

For example:

 ANDROID_SDK_HOME = C:\Users\MyUserName

Restart Eclipse.

In my hunt for a resolution, I found this answer which gives a great performance increase: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19338671/1554386