Hello, world and android emulator not starting all the way up!

Question

I followed the tutorial to the letter. I select run then the emulator starts up. Problem is that I never get to a home screen, nor does the text hello world display.

Is there a way to test my installation of the emulator?

Answer 1

Press and hold the power button in the emulator.

Answer 2

Take into account that the android emulator takes some time to load.

Wait for a few minutes and check logs on the DDMS to see if everything is loading correctly.

Answer 3

It does take a while to start up. But remember that you don't need to close and run the emulator every time you want to test your project. Just leave it open and it'll just launch your application when you want to run it.