Eclipse, adb, and ddms not detecting Android Emulator

Question

I wanted to try my hand at programming android devices, so I followed the directions from the android website, installed the sdk, the java sdk, and eclipse. My computer is

Answer 1

Best solution I found is this:

1. Open DDMS(Window->Open Perspective->DDMS)
2. In DDMS in the left side there is a Devices tab, a little below there is a list of items, choose little triangle called View Menu, under it find Reset adb and launch it.

After that I get my emulator detected.

Answer 2

For starters, I think you can try the 64 bit versions of Java and Eclipse for Windows. I've Windows 7 64-bit edition, 64-bit java and eclipse versions and all work very well, without any glitches. I however have a question. Where exactly have you installed Android? I mean, using the installer that's available in the Android Developer website. If you've installed it in C:\Program Files, then try re-installing it in C:\ directly instead of Program Files directory. I had faced issues when the directory was C:\Program Files and then I changed it to C:\ .

Answer 3

Try to adb kill-server and then do adb command like adb devices which will start adb again.

It helps in my case.

Answer 4

Create new AVD following Window->AVD Manager->New (Give a name to your device & select the target) -> Create AVD.

Select the AVD that you created and Click Start to launch the devie.

Only on launching, the device is displayed under adb devices.

Answer 5

I noticed that if you allocate a lot of memory to the device it can "freeze" when starting, if frozen for a sufficient period it disappears from the adb devices list. Try reduce the memory footprint of the application?