I have been having issues running my first android app. Yesterday, i came close to running it but my happiness was dashed when i encountered this error:
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Finally solved this for me after trying all the options above. There is a solution at AndroidDevelopers on Google Plus.
If you want to have graphics acceleration enabled by default for this AVD, in the Hardware section of the AVD configuration, click New, select GPU emulation and set the value to Yes.