android sdk and avd manager does not launch on windows 7 x64

Question

Can anyone please confirm if android development is not yet supported on windows 7 x64? I downloaded the sdk, but when I tried to launch the sdk and avd manager it fails to

Answer 1

I am having this same issue. I have my SDK in C:\Android\android_sdk_windows. It already has the platform and add-ons folders. From the UI, I can enter the infor for the AVD, but when I click [Create AVD], it just hangs. I can see that it created a new folder of .avd under .ini file. And in the .avd folder are an sdcard.img and userdata.img file.

When I finally go to close the AVD program (from Windows), it comes back with a dialog telling me that the "Java SE platform binary is not responding."

One possible issue was that I had both Java 6 (32-bit) and Java 7 (64-bit) and the find_java.bat program called by android.bat was finding the 64-bit. It still seemed to be working to bring up the UI but it was very slow so I uninstalled the Java 7. Now the UI comes up very quickly (relatively speaking).

However, I've traced the real culprit to the mksdcard.exe program. If I create an AVD with an empty SD value, it creates it fine. If I give it an SD value -- HANG.