Not sure if anyone else has this problem, but for me whenever I try to run the emulator from Eclipse or Android Studio, it will start up, but before it gets to the phone's homescreen Eclipse/Android Studio stops recognizing it. My first solution was to close out of the emulator and run the app again, opening a new emulator back up and hope for the best. About 50% of the time it would work. Next I found if I simply ran "./adb kill-server" and then "./adb start-server" in Terminal from my platform-tools directory while the emulator was runnig, it would solve the issue. This made things much easier - but still I had to open terminal and change to the platform-tools directory and run the commands - every time I started working on Android stuff - still kind of a pain. So, now I have a new solution. I wrote the following AppleScript to automate this for me. You'll need to change the path to your platform-tools directory to work on your machine. And if you're like me, you'll want to save this as an Application from AppleScript and stick it on your dock! :) tell application "Terminal" activate delay 1 do script "cd '/Users/USERNAME/Documents/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/'" in front window do script "./adb kill-server" in front window delay 1 do script "./adb start-server" in front window delay 5 end tell tell application "Terminal" to quit

Nice. I was rebooting, lol! Thanks! Cheers! -- Smug

good - glad I could help someone else out in this! That was one of my biggest frustrations with Android development.

Thank you, Chris!

I've been using your first solution ... it gives me plenty of time to get a cup of coffee :) I once heard someone describe the Android Emulator like this: "It runs like a dog - like a dog that has been shot in the back leg!" A very accurate description!! :) Thanks for the Apple Script! Cheers Darrel