Cordova android emulator stopped working

Question

I'm building an app for Android using Cordova. The android emulator was working fine but I wasn't using it because I installed the Ripple emulator. I continued on building my app, but somewhere the emulator got corrupted.

When I execute the following:

cordova create test
cordova platform add android
cordova build
cordova emulate

Results in the following error:

    Error: An error occurred while emulating/deploying the android project.
    events.js:72
            throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
          ^
    Error: spawn ENOENT
        at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
        at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)
    ]

I have Cordova 3.2 installed and the Android 4.3 API aswell as 4.4. I tried to reinstall Cordova with

npm uninstall cordova

And reinstall it again, but it is still producing the same error. I also reinstalled the Android SDK. This is the log when I run run.bat --emulator:

[ 'adb devices', null, 'List of devices attached \r\n\r\n', '' ] exec: android list avds [ 'android list avds', null, 'Available Android Virtual Devices:\n Name: AVD_for_Nexus_S\n Path: C:\\ Users\\Evers\\.android\\avd\\AVD_for_Nexus_S.avd\n Target: Android 4.4 (API lev el 19)\n ABI: armeabi-v7a\n Skin: 480x800\n', '' ] exec: android list avds [ 'android list avds', null, 'Available Android Virtual Devices:\n Name: AVD_for_Nexus_S\n Path: C:\\ Users\\Evers\\.android\\avd\\AVD_for_Nexus_S.avd\n Target: Android 4.4 (API lev el 19)\n ABI: armeabi-v7a\n Skin: 480x800\n', '' ] WARNING : no emulator specified, defaulting to AVD_for_Nexus_S Waiting for emulator... exec: adb devices events.js:72 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event

Any clues?

Answer 1

Just re run after starting emulator manually.

Create Emulator

1. type android in cmd and hit enter, a GUI will come.
2. Under tools section click “manage AVDs” and follow the further instruction to create a new AVD.

Start Emulator

1. emulator.exe -avd *avdname* in cmd (wait for few minutes for full start up)
2. now re run cordova. it will work.