How to stop emulated app from running? (Android Studio, 64-bit Win7 SP1)

Question

Running Your App -> Run on the Emulator clearly explains how to RUN an app from within Android Studio by launching the emulator.

My question is - Once I've done that: "How should I STOP the emulated app from running?"

Thought #1 - Use the "Run -> Stop (Ctrl + F2)" option on Android Studio's menu. But, when running my simple Hello-World-type application, that option is disabled. Accordingly, Ctrl+F2 has no effect.

Thought #2 - Close the emulator window, by right-clicking the emulator's icon in my task bar, and selecting "Close window." That closed the application all right, but then it seemed to leave things in a strange state. -- When I tried to run the application again, it gave an error and I had to recreate the project. That happened repeatably.

Thought #3 - Try shutting down the (emulated) Android device. I tried that on Saturday evening: I held down the (emulated) Power button. Clicked the option in the "Device options" window. It's now Monday morning, and it still says that it's "Shutting down...".

So, "How should I stop the emulated app from running?"

Thank you for any suggestions/help you can provide.

Russell

---

I now see that I had asked the wrong question. I should have asked how to stop a running emulator.

Although I had been able to do so by right-clicking the emulator's entry in the task bar, and selecting "Close window", that had SEEMED to cause some problems. ["The selected device is incompatible" was displayed in the "Device Chooser" dialog.] So, I thought that was the wrong way to do it.

Since then, though, I think I've figured out that something else was causing my problems:

1. I had an Android emulator process (emulator-arm.ese *32) which hadn't terminated properly.

2. When I selected another device, I hadn't given the (slow) Android emulator enough time to clear the "The selected device is incompatible" error(s).

The problem process stayed in Windows' Task Manager after I shut down Android Studio, and Task Manager's failed to kill it. So I rebooted my PC, and now everything seems to work OK.

Answer 1

Use the multitask button on the emulator itself to open the list of running apps, then click the "X" to close your app.