AVD launch in Android Studio 2.3 and Ubuntu 17.04

Hello All,

For people who use Android Studio for Android programming and in the Ubuntu / Debian Environment, there was a recent problem loading a AVD in the latest 2.3 version.

This blog post helps you solve this peculiar problem.

The details:

1. You write some android code, and want to test with a AVD. You install the specific target machine, but after gradle build, the launch of AVD totally stops.

There is a timeout of about 300 seconds and the AVD fails to load.

One alternate method is to use your existing Android based smart phone and connect it with a USB cord.

The second approach is given below:

Issue this below command in bold and then restart Android Studio. The problem should be solved.

ln -sf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6  /your_sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++/libstdc++.so.6

Make sure to replace your_sdk above with your respective $ANDROID_SDK path.

Hope this helps you..

Tc,
Ananth G S