Successfully Running an Android AVD Manager and creating new Emulator

Issue

So I am a beginner to Android development and decided I would start learning based on the Android site itself how to make android apps. I thought a good place to start would be making my first emulator and running a minimal hello world program.

Using the Android Guide:

http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/managing-avds.html

It instructs how to make an emulator but the appearance of my AVD is radically different than the one they are using and I have encountered an error with it which I cannot find online literature to fix:

Specifically the process they give to make a new virtual device is hit "new" (in my case I am guessing that is the same thing as "create" since there is no "new "button on the most recent version of AVD manager)

And after that a form appears, I am supposed to fill up the form with relevant Virtual Device information and hit "ok" to create the device.

Except... after filling all the information I still cannot hit "ok". The button is greyed out, and I have done everything exactly as the android guide told me. What should I do to fix this? I have the form displayed below notice the greyed out ok button on the bottom right corner.

Solution

The problem is in the field: "CPU/ABI: No System images installed for this target". To rectify, open up the Android SDK Manager and download/install a System Image.

For example, when I open the Android SDK Manager, I expand the Android 4.4.2 (API 19) and install the ARM EABI v7a System Image (and for giggles, I might install the Intel image as well).

Whilst there, make sure you have other bits you might need for development (but not necessarily for the emulator) like the SDK and I'd definitely recommend downloading the sources, samples, SDK Tools, SDK Platform-tools and SDK Build-Tools.

You can use a later API version if you like, but API 19 has been released into production at the time of writing.

After which, you can restart the AVD and you'll be able to select the a CPU and create the emulator.

Answered By - Charlie Tabone