How to create an AVD for Android 4 0

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Android 4 0 is now released  I have just updated my ADT plugin and downloaded the 4 0 SDK  But when I try to create an AVD for Android 4 0  Eclipse tells me  Unable to find a  userdata img  file for ABI armeabi to copy into the AVD folder    I found d  android-sdk-windows platforms android-14 missing the  images  folder which other versions have  This folder may have  userdata img  that create an AVD should have   Where should I to get  userdata img   and how do I create an AVD for Android 4 0

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You can also get this problem if you have your Android SDK version controlled. You get a slightly different error:

Unable to find a 'userdata.img' file for ABI .svn to copy into the AVD folder.

For some reason, the Android Virtual Device (AVD) manager believes the .svn folder is specifying an application binary interface (ABI). It looks for userdata.img within the .svn folder and can't find it, so it fails.

I used the shell extension found in the responses for the Stack Overflow question Removing .svn files from all directories to remove all .svn folders recursively from the android-sdk folder. After this, the AVD manager was able to create an AVD successfully. I have yet to figure out how to get the SDK to play nicely with Subversion.

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Another solution  for those of us without an internet connection to our development machine is   Create a folder called system-images in the top level of your SDK directory  next to platforms and tools   Create subdirs android-14 and android-15  as applicable   Extract the complete armeabi-v7a folder to these directory  sysimg armv7a-15 r01 zip  from  e g  google s repository  goes to android-15  sysimg armv7a-14 r02 zip to android-14   I ve not tried this procedure offline  I finally relented and used my broadband allowance at home  but these are the target locations for these large sysimg s  for future reference   I ve tried creating the image subdirs where they were absent in 14 and 15 but while this allowed the AVD to create an image  for 15 but not 14  it hadn t shown the Android logo after 15 minutes

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I just did the same  If you look in the  Android SDK Manager  in the  Android 4 0  API 14   section you ll see a few packages  One of these is named  ARM EABI v7a System Image    This is what you need to download in order to create an Android 4 0 virtual device

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This answer is for creating AVD in Android Studio    First click on AVD button on your Android Studio top bar       In this window click on Create Virtual Device      Now you will choose hardware profile for AVD and click Next       Choose Android Api Version you want in your AVD  Download if no api exist  Click next       This is now window for customizing some AVD feature like camera  network  memory and ram size etc  Just keep default and click Finish       You AVD is ready  now click on AVD button in Android Studio  same like 1st step   Then you will able to see created AVD in list  Click on Play button on your AVD       Your AVD will start soon

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This site Android Create AVD shows you how to install the latest version of the Android SDK and AVD version 4 in Eclipse with video and screenshots if you re still stuck

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I had a similar problem but using IntelliJ IDEA rather than Eclipse  I already had the ARM EABI installed  but I still got the error   For IntelliJ IDEA  it appears you also have to create an AVB first before running the emulator  so to do this you must just go into Android SDK Manager and create a new AVB  This should solve your problem    Please make sure you have followed the above answer to include the ARM before following these steps

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If you installed the system image and still get this error  it might be that the Android SDK manager did not put the files in the right folder for the AVD manager  See an answer to Stack Overflow question How to create an AVD for Android 4 0 3   Unable to find a  userdata img

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