Cannot run on Android Emulator (AS Otter)

[tking16]

Steps to reproduce

Hi all, I can't get Flutter to run using an emulator on the Android Studio GUI. What's going on here?

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Actual results

The emulator is booting when I select it but the dropdown run destination isn't changing

Logs

Logs

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Flutter Doctor output

Doctor output

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.35.7, on macOS 26.0.1 25A362 darwin-arm64, locale
    en-GB) [614ms]
    • Flutter version 3.35.7 on channel stable at /Users/tking/Developer/flutter
    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision adc9010625 (2 weeks ago), 2025-10-21 14:16:03 -0400
    • Engine revision 035316565a
    • Dart version 3.9.2
    • DevTools version 2.48.0
    • Feature flags: enable-web, enable-linux-desktop, enable-macos-desktop,
      enable-windows-desktop, enable-android, enable-ios, cli-animations,
      enable-lldb-debugging

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 36.1.0)
    [3.5s]
    • Android SDK at /Users/tking/Library/Android/sdk
    • Emulator version 36.2.12.0 (build_id 14214601) (CL:N/A)
    • Platform android-36.1, build-tools 36.1.0
    • ANDROID_HOME = /Users/tking/Library/Android/sdk
    • ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = /Users/tking/Library/Android/sdk
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android
      Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home/bin/java
      This is the JDK bundled with the latest Android Studio installation on
      this machine.
      To manually set the JDK path, use: `flutter config
      --jdk-dir="path/to/jdk"`.
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.8+-14196175-b1038.72)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 26.0.1) [1,781ms]
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Build 17A400
    • CocoaPods version 1.16.2

[✓] Chrome - develop for the web [8ms]
    • Chrome at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

[✓] Android Studio (version 2025.2) [8ms]
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Flutter plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
    • Dart plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.8+-14196175-b1038.72)

[✓] VS Code (version 1.105.1) [6ms]
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension can be installed from:
      🔨 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Dart-Code.flutter

[✓] Connected device (3 available) [8.8s]
    • sdk gphone64 arm64 (mobile) • emulator-5554 • android-arm64  • Android 16
      (API 36) (emulator)
    • macOS (desktop)             • macos         • darwin-arm64   • macOS
      26.0.1 25A362 darwin-arm64
    • Chrome (web)                • chrome        • web-javascript • Google
      Chrome 142.0.7444.60

[✓] Network resources [669ms]
    • All expected network resources are available.

• No issues found!
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[darshankawar]

@tking16 Thanks for the report. If you run flutter devices, does it show the emulator ? and if so, by selecting it as flutter run -d <emulator id>, does the app render on it properly ? Also, just to make sure that this isn't specific to Medium phone you created, does the same occur if you create a Pixel emulator with latest api ?

[tking16]

Yeah flutter run works. I've pretty much given up on AS and have been using VSCode with flutter emulator --launch <device> and flutter run. But I'll try a Pixel as well and let you know

[darshankawar]

@tking16 Please check if #153921 (comment) or #153921 (comment) helps in your case to resolve the issue. A similar issue was raised describing your case and above link seem to have resolved the issue.

[github-actions]

Without additional information, we are unfortunately not sure how to resolve this issue. We are therefore reluctantly going to close this bug for now.
If you find this problem please file a new issue with the same description, what happens, logs and the output of 'flutter doctor -v'. All system setups can be slightly different so it's always better to open new issues and reference the related ones.
Thanks for your contribution.

[github-actions]

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. If you are still experiencing a similar issue, please open a new bug, including the output of flutter doctor -v and a minimal reproduction of the issue.