This is a problem related to React-Native, AVDs and Android Emulators:
I just got a new MacBook Pro M3 pro and I am trying to create a new project using React-Native with Expo.
I have installed everything needed, Java SDK, Android Studio, Android SDK etc. Creating the project works. And if I launch the android emulator manually, I can also open the project on Android. However, if I don't launch the emulator manually, metro is not able to launch the emulator.
On my old macbook this used to work. When I pressed 'a' for open Android, it just launched the emulator by itself but now I get this:
metro not launching android emulator
this error tells me to launch emulator manually: /Users/miguel/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/emulator @INFO
I have no emulator named INFO.
However, if i run: emulator list-avd I get this:
It seems to me that Metro is grabbing the first AVD from the list which happens to be this INFO thing, but it is not an AVD.
Also in /tmp/android-miguel/emu-crash-34.1.18.db there is nothing interesting, couple of empty folders and a settings.dat which no human readable content (no idea what this is)
Why Can't it launch the Emulator? What is that INFO thing? How can I solve this?
I have google this but I find no clues and chat gpt is not helping really. Every other thing I have tried didn't work -> Restart, reinstall Android Studio, change java version, restart after all that again, check paths for $PATH which by the way:
#SDK exporting export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
#Tools exporting export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools" export ANDROID_AVD_HOME=~/.android/avd
(I had it before like this:
export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/<user_name>/Library/Android/sdk" export ANDROID_TOOLS="/Users/<user_name>/Library/Android/sdk/tools/" export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="/Users/<user_name>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/" PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_TOOLS:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS echo $PATH
but then there were repeated entries in the path and chat-gpt told me to change it as I posted above)
I have been trying to solve this for 2 days now and I am out of ideas and knowledge... please help me.
Currently I am using Node 21, Java 17, expo 0.17.6, Android SDK 33 with tiramisu, I have an AVD (Pixel 7 with API 34)
There is someone who seems to have a similar problem but using Android Studio However the presented solution didn't work for me.
HELP!!!
PS: I tried a different project using yarn but it has the same problem.
Posting a solution here too:
Download Android Emulator (33.1.24) Stable from https://developer.android.com/studio/emulator_archive and overwrite the existing emulator folder in ~/Library/Android/sdk (if that's where your sdk is).
Run emulator -list-avd manually, confirm the macOS permissions in System Preferences, and then run it a second time to see the INFO log line gone. You may also need to run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine emulator, but I didn't need to.
IF for some reason this doesn't work, go back to an older Stable release from that page.
