Trouble getting Android emulator to run in eclipse

Question

I\'m trying to run the SDK Samples on the Emulator in Eclipse 3.5.

Most of the time the AVD Manager hangs when I try to create a new AVD. When I manage to create an

Answer 1

You can set the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME. For example:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME=D:\Development\android-sdk\

It helped me. Add this variable to \configuration\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME=D\:\\Development\\android-sdk\\

Stop the process adb.exe and (re)start Eclipse.