Android Emulator keeps quitting when taking screenshots

Issue

I can't recall if I have ever tinkered with the settings of Android Emulator, but I've been testing my app on an Android Emulator using Android Studio, and every time I take a screenshot, it crashes.

I tried deleting, and wiping, and creating a new Emulator. None of it works. I tried also to take a screenshot without running my app, with a fresh emulator, and the same problem occurs. It just crashes whenever I try to take a picture.

Android Studio reports this error:

Blockquote WARNING | unexpected system image feature string, emulator might not function correctly, please try updating the emulator. WARNING | cannot add library /Users/sbenati/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/qemu/darwin-x86_64/lib64/vulkan/libvulkan.dylib: failed INFO | configAndStartRenderer: setting vsync to 60 hz INFO | added library /Users/sbenati/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/lib64/vulkan/libvulkan.dylib WARNING | cannot add library /Users/sbenati/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/qemu/darwin-x86_64/lib64/vulkan/libMoltenVK.dylib: failed INFO | added library /Users/sbenati/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/lib64/vulkan/libMoltenVK.dylib INFO | Started GRPC server at 127.0.0.1:8554, security: Local INFO | Advertising in: /Users/sbenati/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/avd/running/pid_935.ini

My machine is a Mac with 32GB of RAM and i7 CPU, so I can't imaging this an issue with system performance.

If no one has any suggestions, I will have to just reinstall everything. Thanks for the tips everyone.

Edit:

I ran this on a new Mac mini I recently acquired, and got this really helpful message. I traced it down to a suggested solution about switching off Vulcan, but it did not work for me.

Solution

This is a known issue and has been fixed in Android Emulator 31.1.1.

This version currently isn't marked as stable yet. A workaround:

• Switch to the Canary channel in Android Studio
• Update the emulator
• Switch back to stable

Update emulator:

Answered By - Cristan