Android Question Can't see newly installed [older] platforms in AVD manager

[JohnC]

I just started using the emulator for the first time and I was able to first add a non-google api 24 atom image to it successfully, then added a google api 24 atom platform with no problem either.

I then needed to test something out for an older api of 15 and 19, so I installed both of those non-google atom images.

But I don't see them in the AVD platform drop-downlist - I only see the two api 24 platforms. So I can't create new platforms for them.

I tried click the "refresh" button in the AVD manager and still no show.

NOTE: All the above actions were taking within a day or two, so nothing changed on my pc between installing the api 24 images and the 15,19 images.

What could be causing this problem?

 

[JohnC]

Update: There is something definitely going wrong here because I just created a new directory, reinstalled the command line tools, reinstalled all the recommended items in the SDK manager and the single "Platform 24 (default)" was visible in the drop-down list in the AVD Manager.

I then went back into the SDK Manager and selected all these additional items AT THE SAME TIME:

- Google APIs (Android 19)
- Google APIs (Android 21)
- Google Playstore (Android 24)

After the install process of the above items was done, only these two entries were visible in the AVD Manager:

- Platform 24 (default)
- Platform 24 (google_apis_playstore)

So there is some bug that is preventing the AVD manager from seeing the older platform images I installed.

 

[Erel]

My guess is that you haven't installed all the required components. Start a new thread in the questions forum for further discussion.

 

[JohnC]

That was it - I thought the images were self-contained (didn't need anything else), but also installing the SDK for each image made it appear in the AVD.

Thank you.

 

[Erel]

Moved to the questions forum.