OK button in "Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD)" dialog does not do anything

Question

Tried to create an AVD from the eclipse environment in the following steps:

Click Window/Android Virtual Device Manager. This brings up the "Android Virtual Device Manager" dialog.
In the dialog, click "New...". This brings up the "Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD)" dialog.
Fill out the fields in this dialog, then click the OK button.
But the OK button doesn't do anything. The "Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD)" dialog still stays up and nothing is created.

score 82 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '14 at 17:18

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you need to avoid spaces in the AVD name. Put underscore instead and the OK button will become active :)

answered Apr 27 '14 at 17:18

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Star this if you agree this is stupid: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=75547&thanks=75547&ts=1409538967 – phsource Sep 01 '14 at 02:37
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@phsource There are many things that can cause the button to be grayed out, and none of them give a warning. Extremely annoying. – DaveTheMinion Jun 13 '15 at 19:44
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@DavidB: I played with Xamarin months ago and now we are trying to set a React-Native environment... I believe I am not alone in the feeling that these mobile development platforms give us the feeling we are developing some 20 years ago. All sort of bugs related to wrong paths, unexpected character here/there... So much bugs, absence of essential documentation... I don't get it. – Veverke Feb 21 '17 at 07:54
The answer does not make sense, or at least does not go in hand with the [how-to doc](https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html). **"Device Name: Name of the hardware profile. The name can contain uppercase or lowercase letters, numbers from 0 to 9, periods (.), underscores (_), parentheses ( () ), and spaces. The name of the file storing the hardware profile is derived from the hardware profile name."** – Veverke Feb 21 '17 at 07:57
Worked for me. Thanks! – Stanislav Iegorov Jun 30 '17 at 18:11

score 16 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

Looks like this is a bug reported since ADT 22.6. Please find more information in this post:

Cannot create or edit Android Virtual Devices (AVD) from Eclipse, ADT 22.6

I was actually able to reproduce the same issue inside of my environment. As a workaround I was able to open the AVD manager outside of Eclipse by using the following command in terminal:

android-sdk-location/tools/android avd

After opening the AVD manager outside of eclipse it let me create the device successfully. Please note you will have to restart Eclipse once you create the device in order for it to show up in the list of usable devices.

Please look at this similar post for some more suggestions if needed:

AVD Manager - Cannot Create Android Virtual Device

EDIT: Update to latest AVD manager and this issue should go away

There is no android avd file in that location in the current bundle — Philip Rego, Aug 29 '14 at 18:24
Thank you. Even in the latest AVD manager, I had the same problem and starting AVD manager directly solved it. — Salil, Oct 04 '15 at 00:54

score 14 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 26 '14 at 22:16

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It's not a bug! I solved the problem by deleting the gap between the letters of the AVD name which I'm going to make!

Whenever I add a space in the AVD name, the "ok" button is disabled!

edited Apr 26 '14 at 22:16

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answered Apr 26 '14 at 21:46

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There is nothing is to downvote this answer. This is what the problem I faced with.. – Sankar V Jul 08 '14 at 12:23
I had this same problem. Thnaks for sharing, I would have never suspected the problem was there – vicmarq Jul 21 '14 at 09:39
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my OK button is still greyed out despite the name having no spaces (BTW, FTR, I didn't downvote you) – barlop Jul 25 '14 at 17:39
No, it's not a bug. It's bad design. – DaveTheMinion Jun 13 '15 at 20:02
can't believe they still didn't fix this stupid problem. – Kumar Garapati Jun 27 '15 at 16:40
I would consider it a bug - a UX bug. Vote for the issue here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=75547 – Per Quested Aronsson Feb 01 '16 at 10:07

score 9 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 04 '14 at 21:46

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Using the "Create Device" didn't work for me, however using "Clone" from an existing device and just modifying all of the values worked fine.
Spaces were allowed in the name as well.

answered Aug 04 '14 at 21:46

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score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 09 '15 at 17:34

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I was able to find a solution by installing the System Images for the Android version I was looking to emulate.

Open up the Android SDK Manager -> Android 4.4.2 -> Check ARM EABI v7a System Image and Intel x86 Atom System Image -> Click Install Packages.

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Reopen the AVD Manager and create a new virtual device.

answered Feb 09 '15 at 17:34

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this is the main problem here not the spaces thing etc. – Vitaliy Terziev Oct 22 '16 at 14:00

score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 23 '14 at 11:32

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Even i faced the same problem, installing ARM EABI v7a System Image solved. try this "Open your SDK manager and ensure that you've installed ARM EABI v7a System Image"

answered Apr 23 '14 at 11:32

Reive

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yep, jaalgar's answer links to that one too, it's for when the OK button is greyed out and the CPU/ABI field (just below the target field in the 'android virtual device manager' window) says something about something being not installed. Had to restart eclipse after too. – barlop Jul 25 '14 at 17:58

score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 11 '14 at 07:20

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If you can't create a device then just clone it.

Open ADT Manger

Click on Device Definations

Double Tap on the device you want

Edit it and click on clone

Then create your device as you wish with low specifications.

You are done now

answered Aug 11 '14 at 07:20

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Aug 11 '14 at 06:47

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In Windows, open the installed folder of the android-sdk.

It will be located in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk

then execute "AVD Manager.exe" directly.

edited Aug 11 '14 at 06:47

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answered Mar 18 '14 at 14:13

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 16:05

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Normally the skin drop down list is nothing, so you need to choose a skin.

answered Jul 01 '14 at 16:05

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 26 '14 at 16:58

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Assume you guys are using Windows OS check if you have set the path for Java, platform tools and tools in environment variables. Then logout and login once again. Generally in windows the environmental variables come into effect after that login

answered Jul 26 '14 at 16:58

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Sep 15 '14 at 14:33

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I had to delete 'ALL' my old AVDs first, then OK button appeared and I was able to create new ones. Some old AVDs were built on old versions of android so i suspect this was causing conflict to AVD manager.

answered Sep 15 '14 at 14:33

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 18:18

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Guys the issue has been solved, from ADT or Eclipse open the SDK Manager (Windows > SDK Manager) and then from the SDK Manager you can use Menu Tools > Manage AVDs and that will work to create AVDs as well to repair old AVDs.

answered Oct 07 '14 at 18:18

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 08 '14 at 06:53

Another silly thing that makes the OK button disabled is using the same name for the Virtual machine. Every time you click the "Create AVD" button,from the "Device Definitions" tab, AVD manager fills in a name by default. I had created one such AVD earlier and wanted to try another configuration and had the OK button disabled because the name already was in use.

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Apr 29 '15 at 10:14

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A duplicate AVD Name also keeps the OK button disabled please check that as well

answered Apr 29 '15 at 10:14

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jan 18 '17 at 07:35

I deleted and reinstalled Intel HAXM as I was using the Intel Atom image. After inputting all the settings the 'OK' button was still greyed out only after selecting 'Skin' field as 'No Skin' did it become active, so I guess you have to choose a skin, even if that means choosing 'No Skin'.

That worked for me.

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Feb 21 '17 at 08:06

My problem was solved by freeing disk space.

I had some 2 GB free, and noticed that after closing the Add Virtual Device window there was a red notification on the top-right corner of Android Studio.

Clicked it, and it showed a log message stating freeing disk space was required.

I did it, and next time I tried adding a virtual device, it worked.

score -1 · Answer 17 · edited May 09 '15 at 11:40

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you need AVD Manager so install SDK from here, then make Android Virtual Device where you install SDK, not in Eclips.

when you run Eclips you can see your AVD in windows->Android Virtual Device Manager.

later, you can add system image, APIs, ... in SDK, because this SDK isn't full.

edited May 09 '15 at 11:40

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answered May 09 '15 at 10:56

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Its also greyed out if you are in the middle of a deployment and haven't closed the project properly. What a croc this stuff is ... – Richard Hammond Mar 02 '18 at 21:14

OK button in "Create new Android Virtual Device (AVD)" dialog does not do anything

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