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Android

Scott Junner
Scott Junner
9,010 Points

Android Studio "Waiting for target device to come online"

I do have an Android device. So I don't NEED an answer to this. However, I thought I would try to use an emulator because it was mentioned in the course. I downloaded the default emulator (Android Studio 2.3) and then tried to run a new project with not changes. Just a straight up new project.

It seems as though Android Studio is hanging on the message "Waiting for target device to come online".

Also I note in the terminal (I'm running Android Studio from a terminal in Fedora) I see an error message "[2520137] WARN - run.EmulatorConnectionListener - Timed out after 300seconds waiting for emulator to come online. "

Any insight greatly appreciated. In the mean time I can work around it by using my actual device.

Scott Junner
Scott Junner
9,010 Points

Further Note:

When I try to spin up an emulator from the Virtual Device Manager, I get a flash of a device starting up on screen which promptly disappears.

I decided to install a different emulator, tried to start that from the Virtual Device Manager and get exactly the same results.

Scott Junner
Scott Junner
9,010 Points

It looks like a restart has fixed the problem...? Not certain about that. See if I can break it again.