Unknown error while creating AVD in Android Studio

Question

AVD Manager in my android studio was working fine, until an unexpected shutdown caused AVD Manager to act weird. Now I can't run any AVD's.

When I click any system-image it says unknown error under recommendation. When I click finish it says:

An error occurred while creating the AVD. See Idea.log for more details.

Here are the screenshots:

AVD Manager screenshot

Shows when click troubleshoot

Shows when click finish

idea.log says : WARN - vdmanager.AvdManagerConnection - Exception during AvdManager initialization: java.lang.NullPointerException — Sabri Meviş, Mar 13 '18 at 12:49

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 22 '18 at 19:13

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I was able to solve this using this solution.

[Delete] *.ini files from a directory home//.android/avd It's for Ubuntu. In Windows it's also in the user's folder (.android/avd).

edited Feb 22 '18 at 19:13

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answered Feb 22 '18 at 18:43

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Widnows location C:\Users\UserName\.android\avd – shaby Dec 12 '19 at 06:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '19 at 10:58

I deep dive into this issue and found the following solution. There was a problem to run mksdcard sdk tool. Some SDK tools such as mksdcard.exe require Microsoft Visual C++ runtime. So go to your System properties and check your System type:

Then based on your system type,(for me it was x64) download/update the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 from the link https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

After installing Microsoft Visual C++, the problem was fixed. Also the Unknown error problem was fixed and I was able to create the avd successfully.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '18 at 14:35

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The problem resolved by reinstalling android studio

answered Jan 19 '18 at 14:35

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I reinstall, but still facing the same issue. – shaby Dec 12 '19 at 06:53
Maybe clearing the avd image might do , also try other solutions – Patrick Prakash Jul 07 '20 at 05:19

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 02 '22 at 02:35

First, go to control panel, Remove, if exists Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable package x86 or x64,

Then, go to this link, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

download Visual Studio 2015,2017,2019,2022 latest package x86 and x64 version. Install two version then, restart pc, Error is gone...

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 03 '23 at 03:43

One possible reason is that adb.exe is blocked by your organisation's Group Policy.

You can check this by looking in the idea.log file. Go to Help -> Show Log in Explorer.

2023-04-03 15:37:43,629 [  60269]   WARN - #c.a.ddmlib - Cannot run program "C:\Users\x\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe": CreateProcess error=1260, This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator

Unknown error while creating AVD in Android Studio

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