Cannot launch emulator on Linux (Ubuntu 15.10)

Using the libstdc++.so.6 that is available in your system instead of the one bundled with the android sdk solves this issue. The emulator has a switch -use-system-libs to do this. ~/Android/Sdk/tools/emulator -avd Nexus_5_API_23 -use-system-libs Alternatively you can set the ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS environment variable to 1 for your user/system. This has the benefit of making sure that … Read more

Android emulator and virtualbox cannot run at same time

Removing the kvm kernel modules (using ‘sudo rmmod kvm_intel kvm’) makes it possible to run the Virtualbox and the Android emulator at the same time but the performance of the Android emulator in such a setup is extremely bad. If possible it is better to shutdown the Virtualbox emulator and unload its driver (vboxdrv) by … Read more

Android emulator shows nothing except black screen and adb devices shows “device offline”

Update 25.07.2018: The latest Android Studio version does not have this option anymore. If the problem persists try to switch between the values of the “Emulated Performance” dropdown in the Verify Configuration dialogue (if available) or refer to the Configure Emulator graphics rendering and hardware acceleration. Update 26.02.2014: There are two hints in the Configuring … Read more