How to Cold Boot Emulators Running API 27+ on Android Studio?

Question

While working with emulators in Android Studio, I prefer to have them always cold-boot because:

1) I like it when the emulator window closes immediately after clicking "X-close" rather than beginning a new "saving state" procedure.

2) I find that many-a-bugaboo occurs when returning to a "saved state" with these emulators (connection timeout on bootup, weird graphics behavior, loss of logcat connection, garbled data retrieved from shared prefs)

So... what I have always done is to go into AVD manager and change the settings like this:

However, when I attempt this with an emulator running API 27 or higher:

...there appears to be no cold boot option:

I have googled to try to find how to configure cold boot on these newer API emulators but can't find anything.

Is it possible to cold boot emulators running API 27+ on Android Studio?

Answer 1

Change config in:

%path_to_home%/.android/avd/%your_avd_image%/config.ini

Instead of

fastboot.forceColdBoot=no

you should set

fastboot.forceColdBoot=yes