What is the reason for the error “Device supports x86, but APK only supports armeabi-v7a”

Question

I am playing around with Android Studio by testing some projects out from GitHub and when I try to emulate the apk, it does not let me choose an emulator.

It tells m

Answer 1

In my case of Linux machine adb devices showed

List of devices attached 
44b194f5    no permissions

Then restarted the adb server

sudo adb kill-server

and then

sudo adb start-server

then connect your device turn Debugging on and type

adb devices
List of devices attached 
44b194f5    device

Finally was able to run on the device