Installed the Android SDK etc under Windows. Running VSCode in WSL.

The path provided to the extension settings:

/mnt/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/emulator

In order for WSL to run the emulators, I have also made a copy of emulator.exe to emulator in the .../Sdk/emulator directory.

Extension returns this error:

Something went wrong running you Android emulator! Try running this command in your terminal: 
/mnt/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/emulator/emulator -avd Pixel_4

However running the provided command manually in the console does start the emulator successfully, making me wonder how the extension doesnt manage to start the emulator, when the command it provides does.

Furthermore, I created a minimal working example in plain js to run the provided command:

const exec = require('child_process').exec;

const cmd =
  '/mnt/c/Users/Daniel/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/emulator/emulator -avd pixel_4';

exec(cmd);

and it perfectly opens the emulator ...

Additional information

It does find my emulators so the list-avds command seems to execute properly

Error ouput when trying to start devicce

I don't have X-code installed, when I run the command without it in VS Code it does not output any errors, but nothing happens.

If there are multiple iOS versions installed, some iOS simulators may appear duplicated. It'd be interesting to show the iOS version next to the simulator name as happens in Xcode

If you think this would be interesting, I'm more than happy to work on a PR.

I can´t run the emulator. i have this error:
Try running this command in your terminal: "C:\Users\erick\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe\emulator" -list-avds

i ran this sentence its seems everything is ok. Help me, please

"C:\Users\erick\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe\emulator" -list-avds
Pixel_4_API_30

something went wrong fetching your android emulator

Something went wrong running you Android emulator! Try running this command in your terminal: "C:\Users\Jimmy J.DESKTOP-26A9125\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator" -avd Pixel_5_API_29

Currently there's an error in devtools only

In the README, the emulator path for windows ends with \\emulator.exe:

Windows: "emulator.emulatorPathWindows":
      "<yourAndroidHome>\\Sdk\\emulator\\emulator.exe"
      or
      "C:\\Users\\<yourUsername>\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk\\emulator\\emulator.exe"

But it does only work without the trailing \\emulator.exe. Also, the setting description says to use the path to the directory: The absolute path of the Android directory on your Windows containing the emulator scrip.

This happens when you run Emulator without setting emulator.emulatorPath:

My path and environment variables are set correctly.

I can launch the emulator just fine with flutter emulator command, but not using this extension.

When I press the command control P in VS Code and click on "View Android Emulator", the Emulator icon appears along with a settings icon. However, when I try to launch the emulator, I receive an error message stating that no emulator was found.

Currently nothing happens

Type: Bug

when running the flutter application in android/ios emulator a message appears says System UI isn't responding

Extension version: 1.6.0
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This is error I get on Windows. Is there a configuration I'm missing?
Thanks.

I tried to install this plugin it given error

Unable to install 'DiemasMichiels.emulate'; there is no available version compatible with VS Code '1.21.1'.

Hi, I've set up android emulators using android studio on linux. The extension is able to pick up the the emulators that I've created, but when trying to start them - the message 'Emulator is booting up' shows, disappears, and it seems like nothing happens after that.
As a side note, the emulators run in android studio.

Am I doing something wrong - or is the support for linux limited ?

Let me know if I need to provided any other information.

By adding the emulator.emulatorPath provide in the README the emulator will start non x86 emulators just fine. But if you want x86 i would recommend adding

export ANDROID_SDK=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$ANDROID_SDK/emulator:$ANDROID_SDK/tools:$PATH

For Mac this will work for both types of emulators. I can create a PR for this but I am not sure how this works on windows. Have anyone tried?

The extension show errors when cancelling to start an emulator

1. Error when cancelling before choosing Android or iOS
   "Failed the select OS version"

2. Error when cancelling after choosing Android or iOS
   "Emulator failed to boot"

When you cancel, no errors should be shown

Thanks! Great work!

Hi, my android sdk is located on "D:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk" and when I set the emulator path for windows to "%ANDROID_HOME%\emulator" or the full path, then I become the followed exception:

Error: Command failed: D:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\emulator\emulator -list-avds 'D:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I have tested with and without quotation marks, but nothing works.

When trying to list and/or run the iOS simulator you get an error

xcrun: error: Failed to locate 'instruments'.
xcrun: error: unable to find utility "instruments", not a developer tool or in PATH

Instruments commands have been deprecated since Xcode 11 and removed in Xcode 13.

The notification shows up and never disappear

Hi, I'm not sure where to type the line: emulator.emulatorPath": "~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/emulator in the settings.

Thanks!

Hi there, I am working on a react-native app right now, and I am trying to deploy the app onto the android emulator launched through this extension by running react-native run-android in my project's directory through cmd.

Unfortunately, all I get is the following error from react-native cli: error Failed to launch emulator. Reason: No emulators found as an output of 'emulator -list-avds'

It sounds like adb is not aware of any running emulators if they are launched through this extension?

Launching an emulator through android studio works just fine, but I'm trying to purge android studio out of my computer so I'm migrating as much of my workflow as possible over to VS Code.

Am using a Windows 10 machine.

The recommended platform for emulator is now qemu2 rather than classic (which is a default if no -platform is specified). At least on my environment only qemu2 is configured, so attempt to launch the Android emulator results with:
PANIC: Missing emulator engine program for 'x86' CPU.
And verbose log shows:
emulator:Looking for emulator-x86 to emulate 'x86' CPU
emulator:Probing program: xxxxxx/emulator-x86.exe
PANIC: Missing emulator engine program for 'x86' CPU.

The quick solution was to add -platform qemu2 in constants.js, but it would be great if ability to pass additional invocation parameters to emulator will be added, there are more options there and maybe someone else will stumble on need of another one.

exports.ANDROID_COMMANDS = {
  LIST_AVDS: ' -list-avds',
  RUN_AVD: ' -engine qemu2 -avd ',
  RUN_AVD_COLD: ' -engine qemu2 -no-snapshot-load -avd '
}

I read the other thread that's similar to this issue but mine is a little different. This is the error I'm getting:

And here is my emulator path:

It looks like the e in emulator is being recognized as a special symbol and I'm not quite sure why I have the exact path shown above pasted in User, Remote[WSL:Ubuntu], and in Workspace. I've tried different combinations of paths but I can't seem to fix this issue. Can someone please help resolve this issue? Thanks!

I have followed the instructions:
Open command palette Cmd-Shift-P -> Type Emulator
--> select Emulator
--> select View android emulators
--> I chose one of the options out of the two item in the list.
I am getting the message "Emulator is booting up ..." and the emulator is not opening.

Title. It's annoying on Windows. In my opinion, just show us all devices, with two categories.

Android Emulators

• X
• Y

iOS Emultaors

• Z
• D

Currently an error shows in devtools only.

Root cause:

Hi,
Sometimes, Android Quick Boot feature doesn't work and I have to cold boot with AVD Manager. Is it possible for you to add cold boot option to emulator? Something like when I select Android emulator, it should show Quick Boot and Cold Boot. Thanks.

Here is how I did it by quickly. You can polish it according to your coding style

constants.js

exports.ANDROID_COMMANDS = {
  LIST_AVDS: ' -list-avds',
  RUN_AVD: ' -avd ',
  RUN_AVD_COLD: ' -no-snapshot-load -avd  '
};

android.js

exports.androidPick = async () => {
  const emulators = await getAndroidEmulators();
  if (emulators) {
    const formattedEmulators = emulators.map(e => ({
      label: e.replace(/_/g, ' '),
      emulator: e
    }));
    window.showQuickPick(formattedEmulators).then(async response => {
      if (response) {
        // Another picker for Cold boot
        const options = [
          {'label':'Quick Boot','option':ANDROID_COMMANDS.RUN_AVD},
          {'label':'Cold Boot','option':ANDROID_COMMANDS.RUN_AVD_COLD}
         ]
      const emulatorWithOptions = options.map( e => ({
        label: `${response.emulator} (${e.label})`,
        option: e.option
      }));

      window.showQuickPick(emulatorWithOptions).then( async result => {
        if (result) {
          const ranEmulator = await runAndroidEmulator(response.emulator,result.option);
          if (ranEmulator) {
            showSuccessMessage('Emulator is booting up ...');
          }  
        }
      })
      }
    });
  }
};

const runAndroidEmulator = async (emulator,option) => {
  const androidPath = (await runCmd(`echo "${emulatorPath()}"`))
    .trim()
    .replace(/[\n\r"]/g, '');
  if (!androidPath) {
    return false;
  }

  const command = `${path.join(androidPath, ANDROID.PATH)}${
    option
    }${emulator}`;
  try {
    const res = await runCmd(command, {
      cwd: androidPath.replace('~', process.env.HOME)
    });
    return res || false;
  } catch (e) {
    showErrorMessage(e.toString());
    showErrorMessage(
      `Something went wrong running you Android emulator! Try running this command in your terminal: ${command}`
    );
    return false;
  }
};

I use Windows 10, so I added the path "C:\Users\LENOVO\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\emulator\emulator.exe" to the vscode settings.

I have installed the sdk but still says that the path is wrong. When I looked deeper, I found that with adding the path and extra word addsin( "emulatore" ) eventhough i dint mention it.

I have attached the screenshot of the error.

I have installed the extension and configured the path to my emulator:

What I've noticed when running emulator that it does not show any recent changes made in VSCode. I tested it by changing .xml file and emulator showed me old version of .xml. However, if I run emulator using Android Studio first and run VSCode emulator next - all changes are shown as they should.

Is there anything I need to configure to have my changes being shown by VSCode emulator?

Forgot to mention, I've tried reinstalling application and setting path to the emulator again - didn't work for me.

Thank you.

Type: Bug

After click the icon or use "Ctrl+Alt+E", select 'View Android emulators' can't find my emulator. There is a popup window display the following error message:
Something went wrong fetching you Android emulators! Make sure your path is correct. Try running this command in your terminal: "false\emulator" -list-avds

What's the "false\emulator" -list-avds command, I can't run it on windows 10.

So I can't start my Android emulator wiht this icon on windows 10.

But when using ' emulator -avd Pixel_2_API_27' in powershell, it works.

The emulator device path is 'C:\Users\jxlia.android\avd\Pixel_2_API_27.avd'

The emulator.exe path is C:\Users\jxlia\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator

Extension version: 1.6.0
VS Code version: Code 1.72.0 (64bbfbf67ada9953918d72e1df2f4d8e537d340e, 2022-10-04T23:20:39.912Z)
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Something went wrong running you Android emulator! Try running this command in your terminal: "C:\Program Files\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator" -avd INFO | Storing crashdata in: C:\Users\Abdorll\AppData\Local\Temp\AndroidEmulator\emu-crash-34.1.19.db, detection is enabled for process: 10332

When i view list android emulator, i got 2 messages:

• Something went wrong fetching you Android emulators! Make sure your path is correct. Try running this command in your terminal: C:\Users\HUNG\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe\emulator -list-avds

• Error: spawn C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT

My emulator path in the setting is correct.

C:\Users\HUNG\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe

How to resolve it ?
Sorry if you don't understand. My english is very bad ^_^

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No .vscode/launch.json is checked in which makes debugging the extension difficult. Normally you just press F5 in VS Code to build and debug extensions.

so we can use the same setting.json for all os.

Currently it shows up when any editor is open. In most of the time it's not relevant.