AVD Manager: The emulator process for AVD has terminated | Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 | MacOS 12 M1 chip

Issue

The AVD manager is not starting the emulator, whenever tried starting the emulator it shows the below error in screenshot

Solution

I was able to find solution after searching for a while on the internet and posting the answer here so that anyone else facing the same issue could find it easily.

Apple M1 chip has a 64 bit ARM architecture also known as AArch64, so it requires the emulator setup in the following way

When you create a new virtual device select the options shown in the screenshot

Remember to select the Other images tab and under that verify the ABI is arm64-v8a, then only the emulator will get started.

Here is the screenshot of working emulator

Answered By - Ajinkya S