Android Emulator - Unexpected '-prop' value

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I've seen this error plenty enough but not on a 2020 Macbook pro with an Apple M1 chip, running through Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.

When I try to start the Android emulator, I get an error; "Unexpected error"

When I go into the Android Device Manager through Visual Studio, the options are limited but, attempting to start the emulator gives the well known

Device error: WARNING: unexpected '-prop' value ('monodroid.avdname=pixel_2_pie_9_0_-_api_28'), only 'qemu.' properties are supported
WARNING: unexpected '-prop' value ('emu.uuid=7698980f-2d31-4db3-973b-df409a67754d'), only 'qemu.' properties are supported

Viewing the log for this, it ends with the following (formatted as code to maintain line breaks):

[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.cmdline' = 'androidboot.logcat=v:* androidboot.consolepipe=qemu_pipe,pipe:logcat'
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.logcat' = 'start'
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
emulator: CPU Acceleration: DISABLED
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
emulator: CPU Acceleration status: Android Emulator requires an Intel processor with VT-x and NX support.  (VT-x is not supported)
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
CPU acceleration status: Android Emulator requires an Intel processor with VT-x and NX support.  (VT-x is not supported)
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
More info on configuring VM acceleration on macOS:
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-acceleration#vm-mac
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 
General information on acceleration: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-acceleration.
[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0] 

[2021-05-10 18:39:15.0]

Following guides, like this one, or trying to follow this seems impossible.

I'm not sure where to begin in getting this to work; it works fine on my old iMac

Thanks!

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2 Answers

It looks like Android are working on an update to the emulator that supports the M1 chip

user_35129480

Yes, Android device manager is not working in VS 2019 with M1 chipset in Macbook Pro because of M1's ARM Architecture. You can try to create one emulator with arm64-v8a in android Device manager in VS, it will not throw any exception but will show only a blank screen. So there are 2 ways to do it. For a permanent fix > install Android studio and in its >Device Manager, in >other's tab , install arm64-v8a based emulator image and it will work fine (try 2-3 emulators if does not work in one go) and other fix is temporary, for which you can follow link:https://medium.com/techiepedia/setting-up-android-emulator-in-m1-mac-fff58ec8bff8 and download link (Initial preview 3) is : https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases. Few known issues are there, but for basic debugging you can use it.

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