android emulator black screen

Question

I have recently installed android studio and all its update using sdks manager. When i try to start the emulator i can see this:

emulator -netdelay no

Answer 1

I had the same issue that the x86 emulator would hang during startup (black screen, no logo). The answer to my problem had to do with me using Eclipse ADT with an old SDK prior to upgrading to Android Studio on the same computer.

I am running Ubuntu and the configuration files are stored in the .android folder of the home directory, i.e. ~/.android. I saw references to the old SDKs in the config files and deleted the whole folder. After that the x86 emulator started working again.

In hindsight, what gave it away was that when I started using ARM images the emulator worked. I had only used x86 images with qemu in the past.