Android Studio

Update ANDROID Emulator  PATH If you are getting error  PANIC: Missing emulator engine program for 'x86' CPU . means you need to update your emulator path. You will get this error while running Android Emulator from its older location: $/Users/userName/Library/Android/sdk/tools/emulator -avd avdName PANIC: Missing emulator engine program for 'x86' CPU. Since 2017, Android Emulator has been released separately from Android SDK.   Due to this change, the emulator binary was promoted from /tools/ to its own top-level directory  /emulator/. ${ANDROID_ROOT}/emulator/ ${ANDROID_ROOT} = /Users/userName/Library/Android/sdk Android Virtual Device l aunches successfully from path ${ANDROID_ROOT}/emulator/emulator -avd avdName emulator: INFO: boot completed You can set Android PATH in MAC from my previous post -  How to set Android SDK PATH in Mac

It will be very easy to run Android Emulator if your Android SKD PATH is already set. You can set Android PATH in MAC from my previous post -  How to set Android SDK PATH in Mac Once your PATH setup is done , use below commands: To get list of virtual devices use -list-avds command. This command will return names of installed Android Virtual devices emulator -list-avds To run emulator use command emulator -avd avdName If you Android SDK PATH is not set , you can run it from the installed directory path: Go To: /Users/userName/Library/Android/sdk/tools To get list of emulators ./emulator -list-avds To run ./emulator -avd avdName

Generally the Android SDK is installed in /Users/userName/Library/Android/sdk folder in Mac. Open Terminal and follow below steps: Go to your home directory cd Create user bash profile in user home directory using nano $ nano .bash_profile Add the PATH variable to .bash_profile export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/userName/Library/Android/sdk export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin export PATH=$PATH/:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools To Save the changes: Ctrl+O , a message will appear to write a file name, Press Enter/Return . To Exit : Ctrl+X   Load the .bash_profile file. $ source .bash_profile

The AVD Manager is an interface in Android Studio that helps create and manage AVDs. To open the AVD Manager, follow below steps: Select  Tools > AVD Manager . Click  AVD Manager    in the toolbar. To create a new AVD: Open the AVD Manager by clicking   Tools > AVD Manager . Click  Create Virtual Device Select a hardware profile, and then click  Next . Select the system image for a particular API level, and then click  Next . Verify Configuration  page appears, Change   AVD properties   as needed, and then click   Finish .

To set up Android Studio, first please  download the latest version of Android Studio . To install Android Studio on your Mac, proceed as follows:   Launch the Android Studio DMG file Drag and drop Android Studio into the Applications folder, then launch Android Studio. Select whether you want to import previous Android Studio settings, then click  OK . Android Studio Setup Wizard guides you though the rest of the setup