I'm new to Android/Kotlin programming (not to programming in general) and I'm following the Kotlin Basics course on developer.android.com. The very first lesson after having installed Android Studio is to create a Virtual Device and run an extremely basic app on it.
However I can't get the emulator to work. The very first time I tried, it opened a small window with a progress bar but it became unresponsive at around 1/4 progress and I had to eventually kill it. Since then it just won't start/open.
After I click run, the code compiles and the Event Log within Android Studio says Executing tasks[...] then Gradle build finished[...] and that's it. Nothing happens beyond that and the Emulator window says "No emulators are currently running".
However:
- Some emulator-related processes have been started. Those processes stay alive even after closing Android Studio.
. - If I try to start the AVD from within the device manager, I get an error message that the device is already running
- I am unable to delete these .lock files without killing the aforementioned processes
What I could find:
- The Windows Event Viewer shows an Application Error
- The Android Studio log file also shows an Error
I don't know what to do with either of these messages, though
What I tried
- Killing the emulator processes, removing the *.lock files and trying again.
- Creating a different AVD (different device, different version of Android)
- Completely reinstalling Android Studio and the SDK following the accepted answer to this question: How to completely uninstall Android Studio from windows(v10)?.
None of this had any effect.
I'm running Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1 Patch 4) on Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19042 Build 19042). I am able to run the app on my actual phone but down the line I would like to be able to test apps on different types of devices or without having to always use my physical one.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
