Friday, July 26, 2019

Emulator 29.1.7 Canary, HAXM 7.5.2 for Windows, 7.5.1 for macOS

Emulator 29.1.7 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels. Changes:
  • Fixed a Unicode path handling issue on Windows where the -kernel command line option did not work with paths that contained non-ASCII characters.
  • Added a command line option to name a particular run of the emulator with an ID. In the CI use case, this can make it easier to distinguish emulators and find out which one has been running on which ADB port, even when running multiple instances of the same AVD (via -read-only). Usage:
    • emulator -avd <avd-name> -id <id> [other-args]
    • Retrieve the ID via adb -s <device-serial> emu avd id
HAXM 7.5.2 for Windows is now available in all channels and HAXM 7.5.1 for macOS is now available in all channels. HAXM 7.5.2 should address the Windows BSOD on QT Beta 5 issue that users have pointed out recently (https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/cbspgk/bluescreen_when_starting_android_q_emulator/).