macOS Mojave: Android studio: the emulator process for AVD was killed

Question

I want to try android auto emulator, so I am trying to download it from the AVD manager, but after several times. I then find even my phone emulator can not be opened, with this error: The emulator process for AVD was killed

I have tried to upgrade my android studio, reinstall it, uncheck platform-tools and check in AVD manager, replace emulator folder, you name it, I have tried them all, but not working.

After I try to start emulator with command line, error like below:

dyld: Symbol not found :_vmnet_shared_interface_name_key
Referenced from ..../qemu-system-x86_64 (which was built for Mac OS X 
11.1)

Answer 1

I had the same problem and i fixed it by downgrading the Emulator:

• 1. Download an old version of emulator (in my case i used emulator-darwin_x64-7425822 download from here )
• 2. Replace the emulator folder you downloaded with the one in your sdk folder (should normally be here ~/Library/Android/sdk )

You can also fix it by upgrading your macOS version to the latest one.

Answer 2

The reason is the latest emulator can not work on the mojave(Mac OS X 10.14).

Solution:

1. Install emulator by sdk manager, and create vitual devices by svd
2. Try to download an older version ( https://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-6885378.zip )
3. Unzip the file, then replace your android emulator folder(usually ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator ) with the folder that you just unziped.
4. go to your emulator folder cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator , list all the virtual devices ./emulator -list-avds then try to open one of the virtual devices by ./emulator @YOUR_DEVICE_NAME

Answer 3

I had same issue, and The simple solution is:

Try to install lower API Level of virtual device , so for example if you are trying to use API Level 30, change to API Level 27 and see if it works

so you need to

• click on AVD Manger icon on top right corner of your Android studio, (or navigate to Tools then AVD Manager)
• then click on Create Virtual Device button
• select a device (such as Pixel 2) and click next
• try API LEVEL 27 (Oreo)

Hope that can fix your issue same as it fixed mine