Android Studio [BumbleBee 2021.1.1] Emulator Timeout on Mac M1

Question

I have Android Studio BumbleBee 2021.1.1 downloaded, running on a MacBook Pro M1. When downloading Android Studio, I chose the Apple Chip option (opposed to Intel)

I've created a Virtual Device - Android 12.0 arm64-v8a Pixel 4.

When I attempt to run the emulator it gets stuck here

Then, it times out:

I have searched SO and other blogs and can only find outdated material based on a time in 2020/2021 when Android did not support ARM64. However, it's my understanding that this has now changed so https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview is no longer needed.

What is the correct way to run the Android Emulator on a Mac with an M1 Chip?

Answer 1

I have found the issue so marking this as solved, however, if anyone knows why this solves the problem, please share!

I found an issue opened on Google's anroid-emulator-m1-preview repo with this answer https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/issues/76#issuecomment-1023563846

Turns out, I just needed to uncheck 'Launch in a tool window' but again, not sure why that fixed the issue.