UIautomatorviewer could not create java virtual machine

Question

I'm starting to use Appium and Android Studio on Mac. When I try to launch uiautomatorviewer from the command line, I'm getting the following errors:

-Djava.ext.dirs=/Users/chris.gill/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib/x86_64:/Users/chris.gill/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib is not supported. Use -classpath instead. Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.

Please can someone help me resolve this problem.

Answer 1

The problem was that I had Java 9 installed. I uninstalled Java 9, installed Java 8 and it worked without any problems.