Android Device Emulator- Error Message: 'Unfortunately, Launcher Has Stopped'

[SergeyKostrov]

I wonder if somebodyhad experienced an error message 'Unfortunately, Launcher Has Stopped' in Android Device Emulator.
I have that errorfrom time to time andit is not clear what causes it. A screenshot is enclosed:



Best regards,
Sergey

[SergeyKostrov]

Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)

Quoting Sergey Kostrov

My question is why emulator for ARM CPUsis so slow? Is it faster for x86 CPUs?

The ARM CPU is completely emulated. That means that every ARM instructions needs to be translated to
an x86 instruction and than run on your host machine. Because of this overhead it is really slow...

[SergeyK] I'm sure for 99% it is slow because simple matters are over-complicated and codes
poorly or neveroptimized.

Alexander,

I've been usingMicrosoft's emulators for ARM CPUs formore than12 years ( sinceeMbedded VC++ v4.0 times...).

Have you ever tried to debug an application created asa Smart Device projectin VS 2005/2008 Professional Edition?
Have you ever used a Windows CE emulator in aWindows CEPlatform Builderversion 5 or 6?
Have you seen how fastMicrosoft's emulators for ARM CPUare?

If No, please take a look you will bereally impressed. Ifwe call it as "War of Emulators" then it is clear that
Google lost the battle.

[Alexander_W_Intel]

Quoting iliyapolak

emulator.exe
emulator-arm.exe
emulator-x86.exe

So its an exe image and two binary-translators implemented also as an exe image.Was there any emulator.exe related crash?

The Emulator is based on QEmu.

Alex

[Alexander_W_Intel]

Quoting Sergey Kostrov

Alexander,

I've been usingMicrosoft's emulators for ARM CPUs formore than12 years ( sinceeMbedded VC++ v4.0 times...).

Have you ever tried to debug an application created asa Smart Device projectin VS 2005/2008 Professional Edition?
Have you ever used a Windows CE emulator in aWindows CEPlatform Builderversion 5 or 6?
Have you seen how fastMicrosoft's emulators for ARM CPUare?

If No, please take a look you will bereally impressed. Ifwe call it as "War of Emulators" then it is clear that
Google lost the battle.

Sergey,

I never worked on Windows* CE so I never used the emulators you referring to. Yes, the Android* emulator is not really fast. Thats the reason why we developed the Intel HAXM to improve the perfomance.

From my personal perspecitve: I am not using the emulator much, because I usually connected a real phone to the development machine and the applications are automatically deployed to that real phone. The main usage I have for the emulator is to see how the apps behave on different screen sizes.

So if you want to have a fast emulator, give Intel HAXM a try :-)

Alex

[SergeyKostrov]

Here is some additional information:

- Android emulator with 'x86' system image is ~2.5 times faster than Android emulator with 'ARM' system image

- Android emulator with 'x86' system image is very stable (!) and I didn't have any error messages

- Android emulator with 'ARM' system image isunstable and different problems happen all the time. Here is a
screenshot with another UI problem ( PgUp orPgDn pressed several times):

[SergeyKostrov]

Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)

...From my personal perspecitve: I am not using the emulator much, because I usually connected a real
phone to the development machine and the applications are automatically deployed to that real phone...

[SergeyK] It is clear that Iwill need a real device, for examplea cheaptablet with Android 4.x.x...

So if you want to have a fast emulator, give Intel HAXM a try :-)

[SergeyK] Thank you, I will try.

Best regards,
Sergey

[Alexander_W_Intel]

Quoting Sergey Kostrov

Here is some additional information:

- Android emulator with 'x86' system image is ~2.5 times faster than Android emulator with 'ARM' system image

- Android emulator with 'x86' system image is very stable (!) and I didn't have any error messages

- Android emulator with 'ARM' system image isunstable and different problems happen all the time. Here is a
screenshot with another UI problem ( PgUp orPgDn pressed several times):

I'm happy to hear that the x86 system image provides you a faster and more stable experience :-) Thanks for the nice comment!

Alex

[SergeyKostrov]

Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)

...The Emulator is based on QEmu.

Where could I find the source codes?

Best regards,
Sergey

[SergeyKostrov]

Quoting Sergey Kostrov

Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)

...The Emulator is based on QEmu.

Where could I find the source codes?

Reiteration: The question is not answered. Please take a look and thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Sergey

[SergeyKostrov]

Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)

...- Android emulator with 'x86' system image is very stable (!) and I didn't have any error messages

When I configured the emulator with these settings:



I had lots of error messages, like:

Process is not responding
Would you like to close it?
( with two choices 'Wait' or 'OK' )

I wonder if these error message are due to some timeouts inside of the emulator?

[Alexander_W_Intel]

Hi Sergey,

the whole Android sources including the emulator can be downloaded from http://source.android.com . This is a huge git clone. If you just want to browse the code, you can use this webpage:http://androidxref.com/source/xref/external/qemu/

Hope this helps you!

Alex

[SergeyKostrov]

Thank you for your responses, Alex!

[SergeyKostrov]

Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)

Quoting iliyapolak

emulator.exe
emulator-arm.exe
emulator-x86.exe

So its an exe image and two binary-translators implemented also as an exe image.Was there any emulator.exe related crash?

The Emulator is based on QEmu.

Actually it is very easy to check...

..\tools>emulator-x86.exe -version

Android emulator version 20.0 (build_id OPENMASTER-391819)
Copyright (C) 2006-2011 The Android Open Source Project and many others.
This program is a derivative of the QEMU CPU emulator (www.qemu.org).
...

[chris_b_5]

Hi there, this is quite a big bump but from what I can see this is the best thread for my problem:

I love HAXM, it's great for my theme development in eclipse. The emulator runs very fast. The problem is with some specific apps like (AI Type Keyboard, NEXT Launcher or QQ Launcher) that simply give the error ".... has stopped working". I've looked for a solution everywhere but I came up empty. Could you please help?

[Alexander_W_Intel]

Hi Chris,

can you provide a logcat output for the errors? That would really help to figure out what is the problem. 

Thanks,
Alex 

[Ashwin_S_Ashok]

try to increase the vm heap size..

it will get solved...

[JLuna5]

probably your code is not complete.

[shadab_khatib]

Is this error occuring while you try to compile and run your own Launcher application or is it the pre-installed Launcher program causing the error?

Because this error generally occurs with me when I have not provided an interface i.e. a xml interface to the java function in the class or activity file.

[SergeyKostrov]

>>...try to increase the vm heap size... It did not help when I tried. >>... >>...Is this error occuring while you try to compile and run your own Launcher application or is it the pre-installed >>Launcher program causing the error?.. It happened with pre-installed Launcher program and the problem is solved some time ago. I simply moved development to a significantly faster computer system.

[Michael_K_7]

Sergey Kostrov wrote:
Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)
Quoting iliyapolak

Absolutely agreeand I simply don't have time to do this.All Androidsource codesare available

@Sergey
What is the 'Launcher' is it part of an Emulator?

The Launcher is the application that provides the homescreen for Android...

Here is a technical detail:The problem/issueis related to 'com.android.launcher' Java class.

.  

I need specific information how to fix that problem...

[Michael_K_7]

Sergey Kostrov wrote:
Quoting Alexander Weggerle (Intel)
Quoting iliyapolak

Absolutely agreeand I simply don't have time to do this.All Androidsource codesare available

@Sergey
What is the 'Launcher' is it part of an Emulator?

The Launcher is the application that provides the homescreen for Android...

Here is a technical detail:The problem/issueis related to 'com.android.launcher' Java class.

.  

I need specific information how to fix that problem...

[Michael_K_7]

Com.android.launcer error for mls iqtalk any help?