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Can not start android emulator from command line

Windows 7, Android Studio 2.3

I has 3 emulators. And all success start from Android Studio.

But I want to start them from command line. So my steps (from command lines):

  1. emulator -list-avds

Success show all my emulators:

  1. Nexus_3_7_API_17_ver_4_2_1
  2. Nexus_3_7_hdpi_API_24_7_0
  3. Nexus_5_96_xxhdpi_API_24_7_0

So I want to start one of them:

emulator -avd Nexus_3_7_API_17_ver_4_2_1

But I get error:

[8648]:ERROR:./android/qt/qt_setup.cpp:28:Qt library not found at ..\emulator\lib64\qt\lib
Could not launch '..\emulator/qemu/windows-x86_64/qemu-system-i386.exe': No such file or directory
Solution

  • I had the exact same issue and I am using a workaround. Let me explain:

    There is a 'bug' in the emulator: it is not able to find the relative path

    ..\emulator\lib64\qt\lib

    Incredibly awesome since this is so simple to fix... whatever.

    Just cd to c:\path\to\your\android-sdks\emulator, typically something like

    cd c:\Users\<YOUR_USER_NAME>\android-sdks\emulator

    then, in this directory, run any emulator command you want, for instance your command:

    emulator.exe -avd Nexus_3_7_API_17_ver_4_2_1

    in your teminal this will look like this:

    c:\Users\<YOUR_USER_NAME>\android-sdks\emulator> emulator.exe -avd Nexus_3_7_API_17_ver_4_2_1

    and it will work.