title: Can't get AVD working with Android Studio
body: <p>I used to use the emulator frequently when I used Eclipse with little problems.  Now that I have been using Android Studio for about eight months I just now have need to use the emulator again for the first time with AS.</p>
  
  <p>I can't get it to do anything.  It just sits there and does nothing.  The same project runs just fine on both of my test phones (LG G4, Samsung Galaxy S3).  The emulator displays, black screen with the word "android" showing.  it will sit there like that all day and do nothing.  I built two other AVDs - same thing.</p>
  
  <p>The monitor window in AS shows the following...</p>
  
  <p>C:\Users\Gary\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\emulator.exe -scale 0.25 -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd LG_G4_API_22
  emulator: WARNING: Requested RAM size of 2048MB is too large for your environment, and is reduced to 1536MB.
  emulator: device fd:944
  HAXM is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode
  creating window 0 0 360 640
  emulator: UpdateChecker: skipped version check</p>
  
  <p>My AVD specs are as follows...
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPe7h.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPe7h.png" alt="here"></a></p>
  
  <p>my build.gradle is as follows...
  apply plugin: 'com.android.application'</p>
  
  <p>android {
      compileSdkVersion 15
      buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"</p>
  
  <pre><code>defaultConfig {
      applicationId "com.deanblakely.findmykids"
      minSdkVersion 15
      targetSdkVersion 22
  }
  
  buildTypes {
      release {
          minifyEnabled false
          proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>dependencies {
      compile project(':library')
      compile project(':googleplayservices_lib')
      compile files('libs/gson-2.2.4.jar')
      compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:+'
  }
  Hope someone has a clue as to what's going on.
  Thanks, Dean</p>