ERROR Android emulator gets killed

Question

After updating to Android Studio 2 when I try to run my application and choose an emulator, I wait for the emulator to start and it suddenly gets killed. I can see the emulator process for some minutes but never the GUI. In Android studio, I get the error

android studio Error while waiting for the device: The emulator process for AVD was killed

This happens even if I run the emulator outside Android Studio. I have tried both an Android 6 and an Android 4.4-based emulator. Running on a Windows 7 x64 PC. Similar post to another StackOverflow post which was closed. I have tried various ram, VM heap, and resolution settings.

Answer 1

I hit this issue trying to run Android API 30. In the end, I had to upgrade Android Emulator to 30.1.5 (it was 30.1.2 before this).

Answer 2

I had the same issue, the problem was there is not enough space in my disk drive.. you can see details about your specific situation in layer 'Event Log' this layer regularly is at the bottom on Android studio, it was my output Log:

"02:45 PM Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Not enough space to create userdata partition. Available: 3310.363281 MB at /home/user/.android/avd/my_Nexus_5X_API_27.avd, need 7372.800000 MB."

I had just 7 GB free, so just delete some GB's in my D.D. and it's working fine.

Answer 3

For me it seems it was a problem that OpenGL didn't work on my machine. I fixed it as follows:

1. Go to: Tools > Android > AVD Manager
2. Press the "edit" (pencil) icon next to your AVD
3. Change "Graphics" to "Software".