PANIC Cannot find AVD system path Please define ANDROID SDK ROOT in windows 10

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While running an app on the virtual device  AVD  created on Android studio  in Windows 10   I am getting an error and panic   Emulator  PANIC  Cannot find AVD system path  Please define ANDROID SDK ROOT Emulator  Process finished with exit code 1  While I have already defined my ANDROID SDK ROOT in the environment variables   Can anyone please tell me how to resolve this problem

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In Korean version of Windows 10  this problem happened because my Windows user name was in Korean not in English  After the user name was made again in English  the problem was cleared

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My problem was solved by creating a Windows user without an accent or special characters and reinstalling android studio on that user  Another change is to change the environment variables  Left Click in My Computer  gt  Advanced System Settings gt  Advanced  gt  Environment Variables  ANDROID HOME   c  my sdk path ANDROID SDK ROOT   c  my sdk path JAVA HOME   c  program files Java yourJavaPath   the default path of SDK is c  users youruser AppData LocalAndroid sdk   Add in Path Variable the values     ANDROID HOME  platform-tools   ANDROID HOME  tools      After changes  restart windows and try again

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Try to use the argument  -sysdir  lt Your SDK DIR gt  and then check whether the error message displayed   See also  https   android googlesource com platform external qemu   1a15692cded92d66dea1a51389a3c4b9e3b3631a android emulator main-emulator cpp  Check out these clip you will find out the reason      Sanity checks  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                       Then if you see emulator  ERROR  can t find SDK installation directory  please check this solution  Android emulator errors with  quot emulator  ERROR  can  39 t find SDK installation directory quot

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Go to Control Panel  System and Security  System  Advance system settings  Environment Variables then set variable value of ANDROID HOME set it like this  C  Users username AppData Local Android sdk  set username as your pc name  then restart your android studio  after that you can create your AVD again than the error will gone than it will start the virtual device

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Android Studio Picture  Make sure you have an Android Virtual Device selected to output the app to  In the picture I put on this post you can see I selected the Android Virtual Device  Nexus 5  as the output device  Doing this removed the error for me

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Update Android emulator alone from SDK tool

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Go to following path Control Panel gt  gt System and Security gt  gt System gt  gt Advance system settings gt  gt Environment Variables then set the variable value of ANDROID HOME set it like following  quot C  Users username AppData Local Android sdk quot  set the username as your pc name  then just restart your android studio  Then you can create your AVD again after that your error will be gone and it will start the virtual device

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I had the same problem when I was trying to move the android studio to another Drive as it was taking a lot of space in my C Windows drive  Drive  Here s what fixed my problem -  Copy the C  Users   YourUserName   android folder to another drive  Go to start environment variable make a new variable named ANDROID SDK HOME and add the path of the new location like mine is F  Android AVD  don t add  android to it   Then add ANDROID SDK HOME to the existing Path variable  Open android studio  go to configure -- gt  AVD manager and you ll see that you ve successfully moved to a new location

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For those coming here with a Mac   I had the same issue and the problem was  I created an emulator with API Level 29 but removed that SDK and installed 28 instead  The emulator that was not able to be launched anymore   Therefore check the AVD Manager if your emulator really can be launched

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define ANDROID SDK ROOT as environment variable where your SDK is residing  default path would be  C  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk  and restart computer to take effect

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create environment variable like in the screenshot and make sure to replace with your sdk path in my case it was C  Users zeesh AppData Local Android sdk replace zeesh with your username and make sure to restart android studio to take effect

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Open Android Studio and under the Tools you will find the AVD manager  Click on it and ensure that you have a valid virtual device with the SDK downloaded  click  download  in the Actions column if shown   Then ensure that the correct virtual device is selected on the toolbar

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Find the ANDROID HOME path values from environment variable  In my case it is like C  Users RuwanPr AppData Local Android Sdk  If this value not found please add ANDROID HOME value as your sdk path   To go to environment variable right click on my computer -  Properties -  Advance System Settings -  Environment Variable   Then open cmd on windows and go to sdk folder and then go to tools folder  Type emulator -list-avds in comd  It will shows avd name list  Then type emulator -avd avd-name  Ex - think avd-name shows as J2 Api 22 emulator -avd J2 Api 22

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Check C  Users User path  Change User directory name  may be something different name  from your alphabet to English alphabet  Warning  it is dangerous operation  learn it before changing  Android Studio can not access to AVD throw users Your alphabet name  android

[android] PANIC: Cannot find AVD system path. Please define ANDROID_SDK_ROOT (in windows 10)

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