Click the down arrow 🔽 which is to the right of play arrow ▶️, to find out the name of the AVD. Try starting the AVD directly from command-line It fails with another cryptic error, but that’s at least more actionable Sh 1 2 3 $( dirname $( which android )) /emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_28_x86 ... PANIC: Broken AVD system path.