How to fix Android emulator not responding after launch behaviour?

Issue

The below is the displayed output in the console:

[2011-08-10 15:59:37 - Activities] ------------------------------

[2011-08-10 15:59:37 - Activities] Android Launch!

[2011-08-10 15:59:37 - Activities] adb is running normally.

[2011-08-10 15:59:37 - Activities] Performing net.learn2develop.Activities.ActivitiesActivity activity launch

[2011-08-10 15:59:37 - Activities] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with compatible AVD 'andy2'

[2011-08-10 15:59:37 - Activities] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'andy2'

[2011-08-10 15:59:38 - Emulator]

[2011-08-10 15:59:38 - Emulator] This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

[2011-08-10 15:59:38 - Emulator] Please contact the application's support team for more information.

[2011-08-10 15:59:40 - Emulator] Failed to allocate memory: 8

I am getting this error regularly. Please help me out of this.

Solution

Using Android 3.1 emulator is near useless and non-functional.

If you want to test your app > 2.3 then you will likely need to buy a device.

If you don't need your app to run on greater than 2.3 then change your emulator version to 2.3.3

check tools.android.com for up and coming hardware acceleration which will allow emulation of 3.0 onwards.

Answered By - Graeme