My First App hangs on Emulator

[feldom76]

I have followed the tutorial to produce "My First App" using Eclipse on my PC. Looks OK without errors. I then start up the emulator but all I get is the black tablet shown with "Android" in the centre. I do not get the "enter message" and "send" button shown, as per the tutorial. The emulator seems to be running according to the following script:-
6 14:02:08 - MyFirstApp] ------------------------------
[2012-12-16 14:02:08 - MyFirstApp] Android Launch!
[2012-12-16 14:02:08 - MyFirstApp] adb is running normally.
[2012-12-16 14:02:08 - MyFirstApp] Performing com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity activity launch
[2012-12-16 14:02:09 - MyFirstApp] Automatic Target Mode: Preferred AVD 'MyAVD2' is available on emulator 'emulator-5554'
[2012-12-16 14:02:09 - MyFirstApp] Uploading MyFirstApp.apk onto device 'emulator-5554'
[2012-12-16 14:02:10 - MyFirstApp] Installing MyFirstApp.apk...
[2012-12-16 14:02:27 - MyFirstApp] Success!
[2012-12-16 14:02:27 - MyFirstApp] Starting activity com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity on device emulator-5554

Any suggestions, please

Mike

 

[number01]

I have experienced this as well. After force closing eclipse multiple times because I thought it was frozen, I just waited for a while and it began to work (maybe 5 minutes or so). However, using the emulator is much slower than plugging in a device and having adt load the app there. Good luck with your program!

 

[feldom76]

Gave up with the emulator. Just copied the Myfirstapp.apk to the Nexus and installed from this file.
Runs fine on the Nexus.