Thread: Problem regarding Android SDK and ADT update in Eclipse: Emulator response problem.

Dear javaprogrammingforums.com administrators and members,

A greeting of peace.


I am just starting to program in Android last week and so far I did not encountered any problems. But recently, I updated my Android SDK then my Eclipse complained that it needs now ADT version 14.xxx. So what I did is that I installed ADT version 14, but now the problem is that why the emulator took so so so long to load my very simple Hello World Android app? I left my emulator for almost an hour BUT the app (according to Eclipse Console Tab) says Installing HelloAndroid.apk...

Before the updates, I recently used ADT 12 and uploaded only basic Android SDK tools (if I am not mistaken, I only downloaded SDK Platform Android 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.3), BUT the program work so smoothly...until now.

I'm beginning to think that updating my SDK and ADT was such a bad idea, a big regret. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this thing?

Thank you and more power.


Warm regards,

Mark Squall

Hey man, I feel your pain... it did the same junk to me. I dont know any other way to do this, but you might have to just uninstall/reinstall, then pray that it works. anyhow, God bless, hope to help you in some form or fashion, or if not, maybe you can help me. But if you figure it out, please let me know. Thanks, Andrew Clark

Metalshadow24,

Greeting of peace to you bro.

Well, I have solved this problem. Well, you answered it correctly bro...I work back from scratch.

I deleted my eclipse folder and extract a new one (in this case I am using Eclipse Indigo), reinstalled everything. Android SDK is already version 15 (as seen in Android SDK | Android Developers web site...hays how technology upgrades so so fast, but I cannot cope that fast sad to say. ). So I installed this new version, installed the Android Development Toolkit (ADT), which is also in version 15. Then like before, my simple hello world and input/output program works A-OK.

Well, I guess if all else' fails, reinstalled again and again (using new updates if there's any).


Thank you and Happy Halloween.



Warm regards,

Mark Squall

You can improve the load time of the emulator with a few switches. Not sure how to do it from eclipse but from the command prompt use:

$ emulator.exe -cpu-delay 0 -no-boot-anim -avd android22_hvga_480x800_32mb -scale 150dpi &

Substituting your device name with android22_hvga_480x800_32mb