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so I just recently (yesterday) started developing on the Android platform. So far I have created a Hello World application as described in their tutorial, but it does not run. When I run it, it waits at the blinky Android screen, then finally moves to the screen where it says Android in a fancy font and its kind of glossy and silver but never moves from there. What have I done wrong? Thank you.

tchrist
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  • how old is your machine ? Sometimes it takes a very long time to launch the emulator. – tbruyelle Jan 07 '10 at 22:27
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    I agree with Thomas, it takes FOREVER for the Emulator to start the first time. Try just letting it run. – CaseyB Jan 07 '10 at 22:43
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    Actually, I just had this happen to me.. it hung during startup for many many minutes -- whether it was related to my horribly loaded system at the time, I have no idea. Restarting it sorted things. – Christopher Orr Jan 07 '10 at 23:09
  • use a virtual device http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554099/why-is-the-android-emulator-so-slow-how-can-we-speed-up-the-android-emulator – ashish.n May 22 '15 at 07:55

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That just sounds like the Android emulator isn't starting properly.

If you run adb logcat from the command line, or open "LogCat" view in Eclipse, do you see any messages appearing? You may have to select the "emulator-5554" device first from the "Devices" tab first.

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Try exiting the emulator and eclipse both, and then restarting eclipse and running the project once again. This worked for me.

Shikhar Mishra
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