ERROR : No emulator images (avds) found thrown on windows 8 while opening emulator

Question

I am having one cordova application made in ionic framework i want to test it in emulator som fired command ionic emulate android and it threw following error Error

Answer 1

First of all create the emulator image:

Go to tools folder, i.e: "C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools"

The command is:

android create avd --name thename -k "system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86"

Then emulate:

ionic cordova emulate android

**Make sure to have HAXM accelerator installed: "C:\Users\Myuser\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager"