This is driving me crazy. Like these people, slow-android-emulator, I'm finding running the emulator from eclipse is slow and problematic. As suggested, I've tried running the emulator seperately. But then I don't get my latest changes. I don't know eclipse that well, but I would like something like 'build' and then somehow load the latest image into the emulator.
Also, I've tried keeping the emulator open and the continually use run->debug, but after 2 or 3 times, I get errors like the following:
Failed to install HelloAndroid.apk on device 'emulator-5554': timeout
Launch canceled!
emulator: ERROR: the user data image is used by another emulator. aborting
Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched...
emulator-5554 disconnected! Cancelling 'com.example.helloandroid.HelloAndroid activity launch'!
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.android.ddmlib.Client.sendAndConsume(Client.java:571)
at com.android.ddmlib.HandleHello.sendHELO(HandleHello.java:142)
at com.android.ddmlib.HandleHello.sendHelloCommands(HandleHello.java:65)
at com.android.ddmlib.Client.getJdwpPacket(Client.java:670)
at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.processClientActivity(MonitorThread.java:317)
at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.run(MonitorThread.java:263)
I've tried killing and restarting the adb server to no avail.
Once again, briefly, I would just like a 'system' where I can effectively make changes, load them into the emulator and test.