Android Emulator No Longer Starts

[Jeff Mikels]

My Flutter workflow was going well until I updated Android Studio today.

I know this isn't a forum for Android Studio, but I also know that Flutter people are some of the smartest people around and you might have a solution for me.

I'm running macOS Mojave (10.14.16) (because I need 32-bit compatibility at least for now), and I was doing fine with Android Studio 3.x, but today, I installed 4.1.3, and now my emulator won't launch.

In Android Studio, I get zero helpful information regarding why it won't launch, but if I launch the emulator using the Flutter command line, I get this error:

joshua:~ jeff$ flutter emulators --launch Android

The Android emulator exited with code -6 during startup

Android emulator stderr:

dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/IOUSBHost.framework/Versions/A/IOUSBHost

  Referenced from: /Volumes/Jeff/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/qemu/darwin-x86_64/qemu-system-x86_64

  Reason: image not found

Address these issues and try again.

Looking in /System/Library/Frameworks/ I can confirm that IOUSBHost.framework is not there, and I don't think it was introduced into macOS until Mojave.

Does anyone have any ideas? I'm currently trying to downgrade my Android Studio back to 3.1, so we will se where that gets us, but I really would like to be on 4.x if possible.

[Jeff Mikels]

As a workaround, I was able to successfully downgrade android emulator to 28.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49120854/how-to-downgrade-android-emulator

I downloaded 28.0.25.0 (build_id 5395263) from here:

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-5395263.zip

I deleted everything EXCEPT package.xml from

    $HOME/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/

and replaced them with the contents of the extracted zip file.

Finally, make sure your AVD system image is NOT running api 30.

    sdkmanager "system-images;android-27;google_apis_playstore;x86"

System images higher than api 29 are using a kernel format that the older emulator cannot understand.

Here's a workaround script you can try:

    cd ~

    mkdir emulator_downgrade

    cd emulator_downgrade

    wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-5395263.zip

    unzip emulator-darwin-5395263.zip

    mv ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator ~/Library/Android/sdk/previous-emulator

    mv emulator ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator

    cp ~/Library/Android/sdk/previous-emulator/package.xml 

    ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/package.xml

    cd ~

    ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/emulator -version

    ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/emulator -list-avds

[Jeff Mikels]

I have submitted an Android Studio issue here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/183218284

[Benedicte Roussel]

very strange idea to downgrade

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