Unable to launch emulator in Android Studio (error: Loading Devices)

Question

I have a new PC and cloned my Android git repo to my device.

When I open my Android projects that are cloned from Git, I'm unable to launch the emulator. It shows "Add Configuration..." and "Loading Devices...".

However, when I created a new project from scratch on my new machine, the buttons work fine

I suppose it has something to do with my configuration files in the projects from Git, but I'm not sure what it is.

I don't have Flutter installed. I also noticed there's a missing module.

None of these worked:

• Open as "Import Project"
• Run as admin
• Invalidate Caches / Restart
• Killed and restart adb process
• Deleted and re-downloaded platform-tools
• Deleted the .idea directory

Answer 1

Realized settings.gradle was missing because of .gitignore when cloning to the new device. After commenting out the exclusion in .gitignore and recloning the repo, it works.