Android Studio vs Visual Studio Emulator Conflict (AVDs Show Up, But Won’t Run)
I’ve been using Android Studio for years to test new Android features and, more recently, to record Android screens for videos—because it’s often easier than filming a physical device.
At the same time, I’m a .NET developer and I occasionally build small .NET MAUI apps in Visual Studio. Both Android Studio and Visual Studio have an “Android Device Manager”, and both can see the Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) installed on the machine… but after a default install of both IDEs, something weird happens:
Android Studio can’t run the AVDs created/managed by Visual Studio—and Visual Studio can’t run the ones created/managed by Android Studio.
In this video I:
Reproduce and explain the issue (AVDs appear in both, but only boot in one IDE)
Show a quick workaround (create a new image/AVD so you can move on fast)
Show the real solution: unify the Android SDK path (example: C:\Users\"you"\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk) and make sure the required Android command-line tools / SDK tools are installed so both IDEs use the same SDK + emulator tooling
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Contents
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - Description
1:30 - The Problem
2:09 - The Quick Fix
3:09 - The Solution
7:01 - Conclusion