Big Sur Android Emulator Not Working

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Hello Guys, How are you all? Hope You all Are Fine. Today I have a received notification to update android studio to the latest version As I updated my Android studio My emulator not working now in AVD Manager shows me this error The emulator process for AVD Pixel_C_API_30 was killedInmacOS. So Here I am Explain to you all the possible solutions here.

Without Wasting your time, Lets start This Article to Solve This Error.

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How The emulator process for AVD Pixel_C_API_30 was killed In macOS Error Occurs ?

I am Using flutter with android studio in my macOS catalina. Today I have received notification to update android studio to theirs latest version 4.2.1. So I Just Updated my android studio. But emulator stopped working. Every Time as I launch my emulator it crashes and AVD Manager shows me this error.

How To Solve The emulator process for AVD Pixel_C_API_30 was killed In macOS Error ?

Question: How To Solve The emulator process for AVD Pixel_C_API_30 was killed In macOS Error?
Answer: To Solve The emulator process for AVD Pixel_C_API_30 was killed In macOS Solution 1 Is if you can update your macOS to the latest version of Big Sure then Your error will be solved. I think this problem occurs only for Catalina users. The second possible solution is you have to downgrade the emulator for Catalina. To downgrade the emulator just follow the below steps. And the third one is Just to download the emulator and place it into the SDK folder.

Solution 1 : Update to Big Sure

Yes, Most of macOS users face this issue now, You can track the issue here.

Solution 1 Is if you can Update your macOS to latest version of Big Sure then Your error will be solve. I think this problem occurs only for catalina users.

Solution 2 : Downgrade emulator for Catalina

Second possible solution is you have to downgrade emulator for Catalina. To downgrade emulator just follow below steps.

Just Download emulator 30.7.3 From Here.
Now Unzip This file that you have downloaded emulator-darwin_x64-7425822.zip
Run command xattr -rc * to remove all extended attributes.
Now just find your emulator folder.
Might be yuor emulator folder can be found In this path /Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk
Just replace that folder with unzipped folder.
modify packages.xml to <revision><major>30</major><minor>7</minor><micro>3</micro></revision>
Thats all.

Solution 3 : Download Emulator

Just download the emulator and palce it into SDK folder.

32-bit

MacOS – https://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-6855416.zip

64-bit

MacOS – https://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-6885378.zip

Solution 4: Create the file `~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini`

Believe me you are not gonna trust me. I am just faced this issue in my windows machine. Nothing was worked. I am wasted my two days to solve this error but no result. Then I just try this solution And boom It worked.

You just need to Create the file ~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini (for Windows users path should be C:UsersDane.androidadvancedFeatures.ini) with the following content:

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This page lists known issues, workarounds, and troubleshooting tips for theAndroid Emulator.

If you encounter an issue not listed here or are unable to successfully use aworkaround listed here, please report a bug.

Checking for adequate disk space

To avoid crashes and hangs caused by not having enough free disk space, theemulator checks for sufficient free disk space on startup, and will not startunless at least 2 GB is free. If the emulator fails to start for you, check tosee that you have adequate free disk space.

Antivirus software

Because many security and antivirus software packages work by monitoring everyread and write operation, use of such software can decrease performance of toolslike the Android Emulator.

Many antivirus packages provide the ability to add specific applications to alist of trusted applications, which enables these applications to operatewithout performance degradation. If you are experiencing poor performance withsaving or loading of AVD snapshots, you may improve this performance by addingthe Android Emulator application as a trusted application in your antivirussoftware.

The performance impact differs between various antivirus software packages. Ifyou have additional antivirus software installed beyond that which is includedwith your operating system, you can run simple tests to determine whichantivirus software has a greater performance effect on emulator load and saveoperations.

Some antivirus software may be incompatible with the Android Emulator.

If you're using Avast software and are having trouble running the AndroidEmulator, try disabling Use nested virtualization when availableand Enable Hardware assisted virtualization in the Avast Troubleshootingsettings. In addition, after Avast hardware virtualization is disabled, ensurethat HAXM is set up properly again with a full re-installation of the latest HAXMfrom the SDK Manager.

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HAXM on older, unsupported versions of Mac OS

If you are using Android Emulator on older, unsupported versions of Mac OS X(such as 10.9), then you may need to use an older version of HAXM (6.1.2), too.

Android Emulator runs slowly after an update

A number of external factors can cause the Android Emulator to begin runningslowly after an update. To begin troubleshooting, we recommend thefollowing steps:

If you are running Android Emulator on Windows, check to see if you haveinstalled Windows UpdatesKB4013429andKB4015217.Some users reported improved Android Emulator performance after uninstallingthese updates. Users also reported improved Emulator performance afterinstalling Windows UpdateKB4015438.
If you have an Intel GPU (and in particular, the Intel HD 4000), ensure youhave downloaded and installed the latest Intel graphics driver.
If your machine has both an Intel HD 4000 GPU and a discrete GPU,disable the Intel HD 4000 GPU in Device Manager to ensure you areusing the discrete GPU.
Try running the emulator using the -gpu angle, -gpu swiftshader, or-gpu guest modes. For more information about configuring graphicsacceleration options on the command line, seeConfigure hardware acceleration.
Ensure that your router is not using IPv6 addresses if you do not have anIPv6 connection.

If you are still experiencing problems with the Android Emulator runningslowly, Report a bug, including thenecessary Android Emulator Details so we can investigate.

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Windows: Free RAM and commit charge

When the emulator starts, it needs to initialize the Android guest operatingsystem's RAM. On Windows, the emulator asks Windows to account for the fullsize of guest memory at start time, even though during actual operation, thememory may be paged in on demand. The emulator requests the full amount of guestmemory at start time because Windows is conservative in ensuring that there isenough physical RAM and pagefile available to hold the entire potential workingset; this prepares for the worst case, in which all guest memory is touchedquickly, without any opportunity to discard or otherwise free memory.

Sometimes, when the emulator asks Windows to account for this full guest memorysize, the request exceeds the current commit limit, which is the total of theavailable physical RAM and pagefile. In this case, Windows can't guarantee thatthe worst-case working set will fit in either physical RAM or pagefile, and theemulator fails to start.

In typical cases, the amount of hard drive space allocated for the pagefile plusphysical RAM is more than enough for most use cases of the emulator. However, ifyou experience failures to start the emulator because of exceeding the commitlimit, we recommend examining the current commit charge, which can be seen inthe Performance tab in the Windows Task Manager. (To open the Task Manager,press Ctrl+Shift+Esc.)

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You can lower the likelihood of exceeding the commit limit in various ways: