Android emulator won't shut down

Question

The emulator starts up fine. But when you long-press the power button (or F7) and choose "Power off", it displays a "Shutting down" message which remains on-screen forever and the emulator won't actually shut down.

I can close the emulator window or kill its process. But I'm wondering if this is the correct way to shut down an Android emulator.

Answer 1

1. Open Android Studio
2. Go AVD Manager
3. Go Actions Tab
4. Click arrow
5. You will see stop
6. Click and emulator shut down :)

If the device is stopped in a bad state, this may persist when relaunching the emulator. To get around this, simply select 'Cold Boot Now' from the virtual device's drop down menu in the manager.

Answer 2

According to the documentation I found at google, simply closing the emulator window is the correct way to shut the emulator down.

To stop an emulator instance, just close the emulator's window.

Source: Starting and Stopping the Emulator