title: Starting app on android emulator for meteor never finishes
body: <p>Today I wanted to test how Meteor's android build worked. So I installed Meteor and created a test to-do app per <a href="https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/blaze/creating-an-app" rel="nofollow noreferrer">their instructions</a>. Then pr. instructions <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29441441/meteor-js-on-windows-support-for-ios-and-android">from here</a> I installed the Java SDK, and confirmed I had the Android SDK from when I installed Visual Studio 2015.</p>
  
  <p>Then came my first problem. When I tried to run <code>meteor add-platform android</code> from the command prompt. I got the error <em>Cannot find module ‘is-property’</em>, and quickly learned to fix this by cd'ing to the directory missing the module and running <code>npm install is-property</code>. <a href="https://forums.meteor.com/t/cannot-find-module-is-property/26029" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A hat tip to this thread for the solution</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Okay, one more time: <code>meteor add-platform android</code> and this time with success. I then ran <code>meteor run android</code>, and sure enough, an emulator launched with my app. Or almost. Because the first message that greeted me was <em>Application Error - The connection to the server was unsuccessful (<a href="http://localhost:12784" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:12784</a>)</em> and the app crashed.</p>
  
  <p>After searching around a bit, it seemed that because the emulator was so damn slow, the meteor script timed out and caused the crash. So I then tried installing <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Android Studio</a> to use <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Android AVD manager</a>. But now the emulator wouldn't even launch, and I got stock with the following:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p8T2h.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p8T2h.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><em>Starting app on android emulator</em> and then... nothing.</p>
  
  <p>So I tried to uninstall all android sdks, android studio, and meteor.</p>
  
  <p>Then I tried to</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Installing meteor again.</li>
  <li>Install only the <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Android SDK</a> command line tools.</li>
  <li><a href="https://guide.meteor.com/mobile.html#installing-prerequisites-android" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Added the Android SDK to my environment variables</a>.</li>
  <li>Ran the android.bat to make sure I installed almost all the newest tools and images plus the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer)
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7tUey.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7tUey.png" alt="List item"></a></li>
  <li>I Then tried running the <code>meteor run android</code> command again, only to get stuck at <em>starting app on android emulator</em> as seen in the first picture.</li>
  <li>Let the <em>Starting app on android emulator</em> run for an hour plus to see if things were just slow.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I have also tried to follow advice from the following resources without help:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/5612" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Android Emulator Hangs</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/5531" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Meteor with android having issue starting app on the device and emulator</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20216256/creating-a-new-avd-cpu-abi-field-show-no-system-images-installed">Creating a new AVD- CPU/ABI field show 'No System images installed'</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13488419/unable-to-create-android-virtual-device">Unable to create Android Virtual Device</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>And btw, here is how my AVD config looks like</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fdJzK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fdJzK.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>So what have I done wrong? <em>Everything</em> would not be a surprising answer. Jokes aside, <strong><em>what is it I need to do to get a proper running android emulator up for my meteor app on windows 10?</em></strong></p>