PANIC Broken AVD system path Check your ANDROID SDK ROOT value

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After typing cordova run android in terminal  I m getting this error   Waiting for emulator to start    PANIC  Broken AVD system path  Check your ANDROID SDK ROOT value   Users username Library Android sdk     This happens after exporting   export ANDROID SDK ROOT   Users username Library Android sdk    Before exporting I got   Waiting for emulator to start    PANIC  Cannot find AVD system path  Please define ANDROID SDK ROOT   Any ideas where I m going wrong  I m sure this is the sdk root so why am I getting broken avd system path

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ANDROID SDK HOME is a pointer to the root of your   android  file  which by default is created at  C  Users name  android   and NOT to the root of your SDK folder  Then  - Assign ANDROID SDK HOME to the SDK root folder will not work  - If the path of your   android  file has non-ASCII characters  it will not work  - The AVD folder must be inside of your current   android  file   So the answer is this    Change your SDK folder  if you need  like the previous answers  inside the project on Android Studio   Close Android Studio  Control Panel   System   Advanced System Settings   Environment Variables  Add a new User variable  Variable Name  ANDROID SDK HOME Variable Value  C  src  or any folder that has not problems with non-ASCII characters or S O  privileges  THE PATH THAT YOU WILL ENTER CANNOT BE ROOT FOLDER OF YOUR ANDROID SDK    Open Android Studio  Make sure a folder called   android  was created in your new location  Delete the Android Virtual Device  AVD  that you created  Close and open Android Studio  Create a new AVD and see the magic happens    Cheers

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All you need to do is install the platform for the desired emulator example for android 11 sdkmanager --install  quot platforms android30 quot   after you do this your emulator will start working just fine

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I had the same problem  I deleted the image emulator on the  android avd folder and after I installed the lib32stdc  6    sudo apt-get install lib32stdc  6   So  it works  Magic

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Just ran into that issue today and managed to solve it   Emulator   140735565005632  ERROR android android-emu android qt qt setup cpp 28 Qt library not found at  Users your user name Library Android sdk emulator lib64 qt lib  15 08   Emulator  Could not launch   Users your user name Library Android sdk emulator qemu darwin-x86 64 qemu-system-x86 64   No such file or directory  The solution was pretty simple  Just install Android emulator through Android Studio    tools    Android    SDK manager    SDK tools    select Android Emulator    Apply  I m using a MacBook Pro on macOS High Sierra  and I believe your machine has nothing to do with this issue  The emulator is not obviously installed when running the Android Studio installation manager for the first time  at least for me  with Android Studio 3 0 1  Also make sure you have your paths defined in your  bashrc or  zshrc like this   export ANDROID HOME  Users your user name Library Android sdk export ANDROID SDK ROOT  ANDROID HOME export PATH  PATH  ANDROID HOME emulator export PATH  PATH  ANDROID HOME tools export PATH  PATH  ANDROID HOME platform-tools

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On Mac  I had installed android-sdk using brew as well as Android Studio  Somehow  having 2 installations was causing this problem  When I uninstalled my brew installation of the sdk using brew cask uninstall android-sdk and added the following vars to my env  It worked   export ANDROID HOME  Users  lt Username gt  Library Android sdk export ANDROID SDK ROOT  ANDROID HOME

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Follow below steps this should solve your problem  1   export ANDROID HOME  usr local Cellar android-sdk 24 4 1 export PATH  PATH  ANDROID HOME tools  ANDROID HOME platform-tools  ANDROID HOME bin   2   Go to android studio preferences   gt  Build  Execution  Deployment   gt  Build Tools   gt  Gradle   gt  Android studio    gt  Enable embedded Maven Repository should be selected    3   Go to android studio preferences   gt  Appearance  amp  Behavior   gt  System Settings   gt  Android SDK   gt  Go to SDK Tools and select Android Emulator

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After quite some time trying other Googled  solutions   the only thing that worked for me  after setting the ANDROID SDK ROOT environment variable on Windows  and also adding and removing ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK HOME variables  was Xerox23 s answer - editing the AVD s config ini to hardcode the value of ANDROID SDK ROOT into the image sysdir 1 property   This was using Android Studio 3 0 1 and emulator 26 1 4  launching the virtual device from the AVD Manager from within Android Studio

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Oleg Cherrs answer led me to a solution  As he mentioned     Go to   android avd  and open config ini  Find the  image sysdir 1 property  It points at the directory inside SDK containing system  images  Make sure that this directory exists and contains files like build prop   system img  etc  If it doesn t  then you have to open the SDK Manager and  download system images your AVD requires  see below     I found the corresponding emulator   ini file in the avd directory  There I modified the  image sysdir 1  entry  I replaced the relative with an absolute path  append the ANDROID SDK ROOT in front   After that the emulator started from the command line as expected

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Check out my answer  https   stackoverflow com a 60201016 12529885  Try to specific the argument -sysdir manually  and check whether the error message changed   They may not a clearly hit  see the source code https   android googlesource com platform external qemu   1a15692cded92d66dea1a51389a3c4b9e3b3631a android emulator main-emulator cpp  And you may solve it easily than searching online   if   strcmp opt   -sysdir    amp  amp  nn 1  lt  argc        sysDir   argv nn 1       continue       some other codes      if  avdName        if   isCpuArchSupportedByRanchu avdArch             APANIC  CPU Architecture   s  is not supported by the QEMU2 emulator   the classic engine is deprecated                    avdArch             std  string systemPath   getAvdSystemPath avdName  sysDir       if  systemPath empty              const char  env   getenv  ANDROID SDK ROOT            if   env     env 0                 APANIC  Cannot find AVD system path  Please define                       ANDROID SDK ROOT n              else               APANIC  Broken AVD system path  Check your ANDROID SDK ROOT                       value   s   n                      env

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avd         I tried all these method above  and I still get the error  and I wonder if it s because my avd directory contains chinese charactor  so I change The default avd directory by the following steps  and it worked  1  create a folder whose path doesn t contain non-ascii character 2  copy or cut the default avd folder  HOME  android below the folder you just created 3  add PATH ADNDROID SDK HOME  and the Android studio will find avd below   ADNDROID SDK HOME  android avd  finally it worked out

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In my case it was broken because ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT were different  so once I set ANDROID HOME to be the same as ANDROID SDK ROOT then it started working

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Similar issues on macOS Catalina and the issue turned out to be the version of Java that I was running  By default  when Java is installed now  it s version 13  which does not work with the current version of avd  Additionally  I had trouble installing Java 8  so I used the one that s available in Homebrew  brew cask install homebrew cask-versions adoptopenjdk8  Then  in my    profile I set the Java version to 1 8  export JAVA HOME    usr libexec java home -v 1 8   Now it s possible to test if the avdmanager can run and detect the virtual devices  previously  this resulted in an error saying the XML cannot be parsed   avdmanager list avds

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It means that your path to tools is incorrect   This is what it looks like on a mac using brew   Mind the version   export ANDROID SDK ROOT   usr local Cellar android-sdk 24 4 1 1    In your case it looks like you should run this   export ANDROID SDK ROOT   Users username Library Android sdk

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I just had the same problem on Mac and here s what I did    I removed the android-sdk that I installed with brew I set the ANDROID HOME variable to be the same as ANDROID SDK ROOT  Users username Library Android sdk

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I had the same issue after emulator update  Problem was resolved after adding variable ANDROID AVD HOME   Important  Non-ASCII characters cannot be used in the path  Finally reinstall virtual devices or manually override device path in Configuration settings ini file which contains old path with non-ascii characters    C  Users  lt user name gt   android avd  lt avd name gt

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This will solve your problem in macOS   pico    bash profile  export ANDROID HOME  Users  USER Library Android sdk export ANDROID SDK HOME  Users  USER Library Android sdk export ANDROID AVD HOME  Users  USER  android avd export PATH   PATH   ANDROID HOME tools  ANDROID HOME platform-tools  ANDROID AVD HOME  source    bash profile

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I ve faced with this problem on Windows 10  I tried several solutions but none of them worked   Here is what I did to solve my problem    Uninstalled Android Studio  SDK   android and  AndroidStudio folders in  USERPROFILE   Android folder in  LOCALAPPDATA   Uninstalled Java  Downloaded latest Java JDK https   www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads jdk13-downloads-5672538 html and set PATH Environment Variable  https   docs oracle com en java javase 11 install installation-jdk-microsoft-windows-platforms html GUID-96EB3876-8C7A-4A25-9F3A-A2983FEC016A I created new Windows 10 local user using LATIN CHARACTERS with admin priviledges  Switched to the new user and installed Android Studio  When the setup wizard was shown  I selected Custom option and checked Android emulator to be installed  I left all location folders as DEFAULT     Now everything works fine on my new user account

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In Windows 10  without Android Studio  I solved the  quot PANIC  Broken AVD system path quot  by transferring   android  folder from its default place in  quot C  Users      quot  into SDK folder  And change Environment as   ANDROID SDK ROOT D  Android SDK ANDROID AVD HOME  ANDROID SDK ROOT   android avd ANDROID EMULATOR HOME  ANDROID SDK ROOT   android     I suppose the problem might be either in non-ASCII symbols in my USER s path or they need to be  quot all together quot

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Platfoms directory was missing in  usr local share android-sdk  I created an empty directory named platforms that fixed the issue

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NativeScript  For anyone having trouble launching the android emulator via NativeScript  it s likely env vars ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT have been overridden   How I managed to create a problem for myself was by installing Android Studio to generate a different emulator  I did this after I had already installed the android sdk via home brew   So if during the NativeScript installation  you selected to install android sdk via HomeBrew  NativeScript will set the above as follows   ANDROID HOME  usr local share android-sdk ANDROID SDK ROOT  usr local share android-sdk   Subsequently installing Android Studio will override these values as   ANDROID HOME  Users  User  Library Android sdk ANDROID SDK ROOT  Users  User  Library Android sdk   So naturally there is a conflict with Android studio and the NativeScript Brew installation of the android sdk  Removing one or the other and or verifying that the env variable contain the correct path should get your emulator to launch

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I solved the problem on my Mac machine by downloading a new emulator

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Open your android studio then focus on the toolbar   Goto tools   SDK manager then  Appearance  amp  Behavior   Systems Settings   Android SDK  Now in the tab copy the Android SDK Location from here  Android SDK Location  then goto your environment variables and then set the path along with these variables    ANDROID HOME ANDROID SDK ROOT   Environment Variables

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I solved this problem by removing the file  usr local share android-sdk   because this file was created when I tried with homebrew     export ANDROID HOME  Users  lt username gt  Library Android sdk  export ANDROID SDK ROOT  Users  lt username gt  Library Android sdk  export ANDROID AVD HOME  Users  lt username gt   android avd   that is enough

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I had similar issue while running emulator on mac os  After lot of struggle I found that I had incorrect sdk path set in  bash profile   I have two installations of android and it was causing that issue  I managed to fix by matching ANDROID SDK ROOT path in  bash profile with sdk I am using inside android studio

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There are may be several different problems when you move your AVD or SDK to another directory  or replace an old SDK with a new one  or somehow get the SDK corrupted  Below I ll describe all the possible problems I know  and will give you several ways to solve them   Of course I assume that you have any AVD created  and it is located in C  Users  lt user name gt   android avd  Windows  or    android avd  Linux MacOS   If you moved  android to another place then set the ANDROID SDK HOME environment variable to the path of the parent dir containing your  android and make sure the AVD Manager successfully found your Virtual Device  Also check paths in  lt user home gt   android avd  lt avd name gt  ini   Incomplete corrupted SDK stucture PANIC  Cannot find AVD system path  Please define ANDROID SDK ROOT PANIC  Broken AVD system path  Check your ANDROID SDK ROOT value  These 2 errors happen if the emulator cannot find the SDK  or the SDK is broken  So  first of all I recommend to remove the ANDROID SDK ROOT variable at all  It s only needed when the emulator is located outside of the SDK directory  But in general  your emulator stays inside the SDK dir  And in this case it must detect the SDK location automatically  If it doesn t  then your SDK probably has wrong filetree  Please do the following   Check that the SDK directory has at least these 4 directories  emulator  platforms  platform-tools  system-images  It is very important  These directories must be present  If some of them don t exist  then just create empty dirs   Go to  lt user home gt   android avd  lt avd name gt  and open config ini  Find the image sysdir 1 property  It points at the directory  inside the SDK directory  that contains the actual system image  Make sure that this directory exists and contains files like build prop  system img  etc  If it doesn t  then you have to open the SDK Manager and download system images your AVD requires  see below     If everything s set up properly  when these errors about ANDROID SDK ROOT must be gone  If they re not  then now you may try to set up ANDROID SDK ROOT variable   Required packages and HAXM are not installed The next problem you may face is that the emulator starts to launch  but hangs up or quits immediatelly  That probably means that you don t have all the required packages installed  Another possible error is   Could not automatically detect an ADB binary  Some emulator functionality will not work until a custom path to ADB is added in the extended settings page   So  to successfully launch any AVD you must be sure that at least these packages are installed  emulator  Android Emulator  platform-tools  Android SDK Platform-Tools  tools  Android SDK Tools   And as I mentioned earlier you must install system images your AVD is using  for example system-images android-25 google apis x86  Note that the most recent versions on SDK don t have a standalone SDK Manager exe  Instead of it you have either to use Android Studio  or tools bin sdkmanager bat  Linux MacOS probably have sh files   To list all available packages use sdkmanager --list or sdkmanager --list --verbose To install packages use sdkmanager  lt package1 gt   lt package2 gt       Also I recommend to install HAXM on your system manually   Qcow2-files refer to incorrect nonexistent base-images The last problem I ll mention happens when you re trying to move AVD or SDK from one computer or directory to another  In this case you may get such error   qemu-system-i386 exe  -drive if none overlap-check none cache unsafe index 0 id system file C  Users  lt old user name gt   android avd  lt avd name gt   avd system img qcow2 read-only  Could not open backing file  Could not open   lt old sdk dir gt  system-images android-22 google apis x86 system img   Invalid argument  There are 2 ways to fix it   If you don t care about the data the AVD contains  just delete all the qcow2 files from the AVD directory  e g  from  lt user home gt   android avd  lt avd name gt    In this case you will get a clean version of Android  like after a hard reset   If the data on the emulator is important to you  then open all qcow2 files one by one using any HEX editor  I prefer HxD   find the path of a base img file  and change it to the correct one in the Overwrite mode  to preserve the file size   Then select the path and get its length in hex  e g  2F   2F represents the ASCII slash    Put it into position 13     PS  Not sure  but there are probably some utilites like qemu-img allowing to set different base image  Well  to me it s easier to manually edit the binary   Now you ll probably be able to successfully launch your Android Virtual Device  I hope so

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I ran into this problem since I ve been doing React Native since the early days  Google has deprecated the commandline tools and insists on Android studio  The solution for me was to remove the commandline tools  rm -rf  usr local Cellar android-sdk  rm  usr local bin android  open up AS install sdk v6 as instructed https   facebook github io react-native docs getting-started html 1-install-android-studio  make a new AVD and it ll launch without error

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On Mac OS X  I was experiencing the same problem  I wasn t able to launch a Xamarin app from Visual Studio  but a native Java Android project in Android Studio did work in the Virtual Device   What I did was    Unset the ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT environment variables    unset ANDROID HOME unset ANDROID SDK ROOT    Remove the existing virtual device that crashes  I did this in Visual Studio  Create a new virtual device

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I m in Windows 10 and the problem was that the avd s directory in my computer had non-ASCII characters in it    Here s what to do   Run cmd as administrator  Run the following command   mklink  D C    android C   Users  -yourUsername-   android    This will create a symbolic link between the path with non-ASCII characters and the new one   In enviroment variables add ANDROID AVD HOME variable with value C    android avd

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Removing the Error While Using Homebrew s Android SDK as the Default SDK  As  EFreak did I installed the android-sdk with homebrew  a package manager for Macs   I needed to do the below to fix the error  because I was following the nativescript tutorials and ran into the error  If you like me intend to use the brew version over the android-sdk version use this answer  this will allow you to use nativescripts tns run android api   and if you want the android studio default android-sdk follow  EFreak s answer   Configuring Android Studio to use the Homebrew s Android SDK s  Basically you just need to change your Android SDK location in Android studio  First open a project in android studio  Then open the SDK Manager by clicking this button     Next when the default preferences for the android SDK manager comes up you need to click edit next to the android SDK location     Finding the Location of Homebrew s Android SDK  Next you need to actually update the sdk location on the sdk components setup screen my brew android-sdk was located here  usr local share android-sdk  You can find where yours is installed by running brew cask info android-sdk then near the bottom of the output it should say   You can control android sdk packages via the sdkmanager command  You may want to add to your profile      export ANDROID SDK ROOT   usr local share android-sdk     The value of the exported ANDROID SDK ROOT variable  which here is  usr local share android-sdk  is home-brew s location of the android sdk   Then you need to click the Android SDK Location button  labeled as 1 in the picture  and paste in Homebrew s Android SDK location     Then just finish up the wizard by installing whatever packages  I needed to delete and recreate my device emulators at this step  but it seemed to work great after that   Setting the Android SDK Environment Variables to Point to Homebrew s Android SDK  Also you may want to make sure if you are going the Homebrew route that your profile settings script has the ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT environment variables set to your Homebrew location of the android sdk otherwise the above won t work yet  This can get changed from the Homebrew location if you installed Homebrew before installing Android Studio as pointed out in this answer by  Jamie Armour  You can check the environment variables for the android sdk are set correctly by running echo  ANDROID HOME and echo  ANDROID SDK ROOT and verifying that they both show the Homebrew location of the android sdk   If you need to change the ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT values you can do this in your profile settings in your Mac which would likely be in something like    bash profile      bashrc   or     profile  and defined like so   export ANDROID HOME   usr local share android-sdk  export ANDROID SDK ROOT   usr local share android-sdk    You need to change the values of both the exports to the proper values of Homebrew s android SDK location then save the file  To verify that the right values have been written you should first either close and open your terminal which should rerun the file and reset the environment variables or you can source the file by running source  lt profile file name gt  where  is the profile file you edited and saved  You then can rerun echo  ANDROID HOME and echo  ANDROID SDK ROOT to verify that they have the Homebrew android sdk location

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ok i can run android from cordova  i changed ANDROID HOME to   export ANDROID HOME  usr local opt android-sdk

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You should add AVD Emulator  Go to this location   C  Users  username  AppData Local Android sdk    start AVD Manager and in the second tab Device Definitions  click on the button  createAVD

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A fix if your user contains non-ASCII characters For people getting  quot PANIC  Broken AVD system path  Check your ANDROID SDK ROOT quot   the reason for this might be that your user in users contains non-ASCII characters  Therefore both the SDK and  android folder with the AVD folder need to be moved to another folder  Changing the SDK path  Open Android Studio  go to configure  and choose the SDK Manager  Change the current Android SDK Location to e g  quot C  Android Sdk quot   Or somewhere else  just not in the user folder containing non-ASCII characters   After this  add the following system variables  ANDROID SDK ROOT C  Android Sdk ANDROID HOME C  Android Sdk  Changing the AVD path  To change where the AVD folder is placed  Normally placed in  quot C  Users  lt user name gt   android avd quot    you need to change where the  android is placed  First close Android Studio  then add the system variable ANDROID SDK HOME with the path to the new place you want  android to be  e g C  Android SDK HOME as used in another example  ANDROID SDK HOME C  Android SDK HOME  After you added this  run Android Studio  Then close it again  Now a folder called  android should have appeared  The next and last thing you need to do is to set the ANDROID AVD HOME system variable  In this case that will be in C  Android SDK HOME  android avd ANDROID AVD HOME C  Android SDK HOME  android avd  I hope this resolves the problem for some

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If you still need an answer then in my case it works after  re download Android image but directly from Android Studio not through Visual Studio button

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I had the same issue which after setting following path variables got vanished Note AVD Home path is different from other three

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For windows machine  After trying alot of set path  remove path and etc  What finally work is to located the folder C  Users johndoe  android and delete it  after that you can lunch your Android Studio  it will ask you to download and install a new AVD and it will override and create a fresh new folder and files  This solve the problem

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I ran Android Studio on Windows 10  set ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT on Environment Variables  and still got the error   Turns out  I forgot to download the device       After downloading the  Missing system image   everything works fine

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To solve this problem I had to install the package with the missing system image using SDK Manager exe  in  C  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk    I had noticed that the system image I needed   android-23   was missing in  C  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk system-images    After running SDK Manager exe and installing the appropriate packages I could run the emulator in Android Studio   Here s the solution that worked for me   https   www embarcadero com starthere xe5 mobdevsetup android en creating an android emulator html

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The errors actually vary  It s helpful to run   emulator with -verbose option  as it will show the actual errors

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I know its not specific for Flutter and not for Windows OS  but this thread is the first result in google and the main one for this issue  so   Using windows 10 and received this error message when using Flutter  this command did the trick   echo  ANDROID HOME  amp  amp  flutter doctor -v

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Check if the system image used by your AVD has been downloaded under  ANDROID SDK ROOT system-images

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I had same problem in my Windows10  Isolved my problem by following the steps below  open Android Studio - Tools - SDK Manager - copy Android SDK Location Android SDK Location set system environment variable ANDROID HOME and ANDROID SDK ROOT system environment variable

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Delete early created devices  Close Android studio  Open  Control panel -  System  amp  security -  System -  Advanced system settings -  Environment variables  Create New variable  ANDROID SDK HOME  and set  new path in my case it was F  Coding2019 Android AVDdevices   Push  ok   Open Android Studio  Create new device  After creating in drop-down menu click  View Details  to see new path of new AVD

[android] PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value

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