eclipse - Android AVD starting error

Question

I am getting this error when i start an avd in android studio. Any help would be appreciated. And also unable to start android studio except from terminal.

PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find Nexus_4_API_21.ini file in $HOME/.android/avd (Note: avd is searched in the order of $ANDROID_AVD_HOME,$ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/avd and $HOME/.android/avd)

Answer 1

In my case, I had especially installed Android Studio on my D: drive (for space reasons). On my installation, the avd directory was located in D:MyInstall.android.avd

The solution for me was to define a Windows environment variable (user variable) with Variable name: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and Variable value: D:MyInstall

I restarted Android Studio and the emulator worked.

This appears to be a bug in the Android Studio installer, since I explicitly stated the D: location in the install wizard. The installer should probably have set this variable.