Google Chrome open with white screen on Android Emulator

Question

I'm trying to run latest version of Google Chrome on Android emulator, but after upgrading it from the Play Store, it always opened as a white screen. I even tried to download Edge chromium but had same issue!

I tried to Cold Boot, Wipe data, and create a new emulator, but had same issue. It was working before 1 week, and not sure if there is any update just brake things. I can see that last Chrome update was on January 4th, 2022.

Environment:

• Emulator: Pixel 4 API 30
• Android Version: 11
• OS: Windows 11
• Chrome version: 97.0.4692.70

Screenshot for the white screen:

Any ideas will be much appreciated

Answer 1

Create or open the advancedFeatures.ini file.

macOS/Linux: ~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini

Windows: C:\Users\%USER%\.android\advancedFeatures.ini

Add the following lines:

Vulkan = off
GLDirectMem = on

Please note that advancedFeatures.ini may be deleted during major emulator upgrades.

Sources:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/70842795/4329861

And

https://stackoverflow.com/a/68344341/4329861

Answer 2

When the advancedFeatures.ini approach failed for me, I was able to resolve this by:

1. Cold booting Android
2. Stopping Chrome
3. Clearing storage and cache for Chrome
4. Opening Chrome and immediately going to chrome://flags
5. Disabling any flag related to GPU rendering, hardware acceleration, etc

After doing so, Chrome is now relatively stable and shows the intended content in all cases so far.