Appium Android 'Launch AVD' not showing all my AVD images

Brian_Watson 2017-01-27 20:55:14 UTC #1

I was wondering of anyone knows where Appium gets the list of AVDs from that it shows in the Launch Device's "Launch AVD" drop-down list. I see a couple items listed, but they are not the ones I have created in Android Studio's Virtual Device Manager.

My Virtual Device manager...

Appium shows only the first 2, which I believe were there initially...

Where are the rest?!?!

brian-themaven 2017-01-27 23:28:14 UTC #2

I believe it gets it from this list:
$ANDROID_HOME/tools/android list avd

Brian_Watson 2017-02-14 01:57:09 UTC #3

Thanks. That helped. When I did that, the ones that didn't show had errors...

The following Android Virtual Devices could not be loaded:
Name: Phone_Android_6_0
Path: /Users/brian.watson/.android/avd/Phone_Android_6_0.avd
Error: Google Nexus 5X no longer exists as a device

Not sure why it no longer exists, but choosing a different device seems to have helped. I can still launch the device from Appium by specifying the name in the desired capabilities, just can't pick it from the dropdown on the Appium UI.