AVD Emulator stuck on loading screen in Android Studio

Question

I decided to try Android Studio 2.0 having used Eclipse in the past but I\'m having considerable difficulty getting the AVD to load correctly. I\'ve done quite a bit of goog

Answer 1

I had the same problem and none of the steps listed here helped me, either.

But since the solution that worked for me was not mentioned here yet, I thought it might help you or one of the others finding this thread:

What did work for me was disabling certain settings in my Avast Antivirus as proposed by the Android studio troubleshooting page here.

My version of Avast did not have the setting "Use nested virtualization when available", however just turning off "Enable Hardware assisted virtualization" (note: restart is required for it to take effect) solved the problem just fine.

So if you are using Avast or another Antivirus which manipulates virtualization, be sure to look through the correspondent settings.