
" " would be whatever name you want to be shown in Android Studio's "Device Manager" view.įor example." " would be the same path you used to download the system image, for example system-images android-23 google_apis x86_64." " would be the name of the device you want to emulate, for example " pixel_4a" to emulate a Pixel 4a - use avdmanager list device to get the list of devices.cmdline-tools/latest/bin/avdmanager create avd -d -k ' -n '', where: Then to create an emulator virtual device for this image, use the command line as well: type. cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager -install "" where " " would be the first column from the available package list from the step above. To download the system image you want, type. They should have the path (the text in the first column) labeled with this format: system-images android- (there are also other stuff aside from system images, lets ignore these for now). cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager -list - this will list all the available system images, even very old ones (I see the oldest SDK is 10). To download a system image, go into the directory where the Android SDK is installed (by default this is at ~/Android/SDK on Linux), then in your terminal type. This works even if you don't have the Android Studio - you just need the Android SDK installed. The workaround I found was to download system images and create emulator devices from the command line. So I went to the link and manually downoaded the file and copied it to \AppData\Local\Temp\xamarin-android-sdk\x86-28_r09.zip and clicked retry from the failed attempt inside the android device manager, and voila, it worked after 2 days of messing around with it.įor me the problem was that currently Android Studio doesn't list older system images (older than 29) in the "Create Device" wizard, and that even if the relevant system images have been downloaded already. downloading did report error with exception: System.TimeoutException: The operation has timed out. Downloaded file '\AppData\Local\Temp\xamarin-android-sdk\x86-28_r09.zip' not found for Android SDK archive '' Step "Downloading Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image v9" did begin for AVD: pixel_2_pie_9_0_-_api_28, totalWork: 918028186 At the end of the logfile (named like _), you'll see it reference a path it's trying to download from and to. = Good Luck ❤❤❤ =įind the logfile for the android device manager (on my machine it was here: C:\Users(user name)\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Logs\16.0). Restart Android Studio and the system image should be selectable.


It is located at C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-30\google_apis_playstore\x86
