Cordova android emulator stopped working

Question

I'm building an app for Android using Cordova. The android emulator was working fine but I wasn't using it because I installed the Ripple emulator. I continued on building my app, but somewhere the emulator got corrupted.

When I execute the following:

cordova create test cordova platform add android cordova build cordova emulate 

Results in the following error:

    Error: An error occurred while emulating/deploying the android project.     events.js:72             throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event           ^     Error: spawn ENOENT         at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)         at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)     ] 

I have Cordova 3.2 installed and the Android 4.3 API aswell as 4.4. I tried to reinstall Cordova with

npm uninstall cordova 

And reinstall it again, but it is still producing the same error. I also reinstalled the Android SDK. This is the log when I run run.bat --emulator:

[ 'adb devices', null, 'List of devices attached \r\n\r\n', '' ] exec: android list avds [ 'android list avds', null, 'Available Android Virtual Devices:\n Name: AVD_for_Nexus_S\n Path: C:\\ Users\\Evers\\.android\\avd\\AVD_for_Nexus_S.avd\n Target: Android 4.4 (API lev el 19)\n ABI: armeabi-v7a\n Skin: 480x800\n', '' ] exec: android list avds [ 'android list avds', null, 'Available Android Virtual Devices:\n Name: AVD_for_Nexus_S\n Path: C:\\ Users\\Evers\\.android\\avd\\AVD_for_Nexus_S.avd\n Target: Android 4.4 (API lev el 19)\n ABI: armeabi-v7a\n Skin: 480x800\n', '' ] WARNING : no emulator specified, defaulting to AVD_for_Nexus_S Waiting for emulator... exec: adb devices events.js:72 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event

Any clues?

Answer 1

Just re run after starting emulator manually.

Create Emulator

1. type android in cmd and hit enter, a GUI will come.
2. Under tools section click “manage AVDs” and follow the further instruction to create a new AVD.

Start Emulator

1. emulator.exe -avd *avdname* in cmd (wait for few minutes for full start up)
2. now re run cordova. it will work.

Answer 2

I Have recieved the same error myself, there may be 3 issues :

the emulator uses the apk file generated in the platforms/android/bin folder. sometimes this is missing so make sure to:

1. cd platforms/android
2. ant clean
3. ant debug

Which will create the missing apk file if missing.

The second issue may have come with adding it to the emulator, which must be run prior:

How to install an apk on the emulator in Android Studio?

There is also the option to delete and create the android virtual machine using:

AVD at http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/index.html

hope this helps, let me know. There is very little documentation about this error.