My Android emulator has no internet on a macOS that has internet. I have no idea how to investigate ...

# android

[jmfayard]

My Android emulator has no internet on a macOS that has internet.
I have no idea how to investigate or what do do?
Any idea? cause this is making me mad 🙂

Edit: after using Google DNS and wiping out the data and updating everything,
the internet started to work again but I don't know why

[Francisco Javier Ruiz Rodriguez]

Are you under a proxy or something similar?

[jmfayard]

Nope

[Francisco Javier Ruiz Rodriguez]

Have you checked the cellular options in the 3 dots menu of emulator?

[jmfayard]

My home wifi has issues that I should probably fix.
Is the Android emulator connecting to the internet directly via wifi or is it using the macOS internet connection?

[jmfayard]

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[Alishen]

You might have some DNS issues. Try to flush your DNS or assign custom DNS

[Francisco Javier Ruiz Rodriguez]

I have checked my emulator, and the wifi is disconnected, just using data

[Francisco Javier Ruiz Rodriguez]

I think emulator use your OS internet connection by default

[jmfayard]

after using Google DNS and wiping out the data and updating everything,
the internet started to work again but I don't know why

[jmfayard]

the emulator is very slow though but I guess that's normal

[wasyl]

I used to have this issue after setting up custom DNS servers on my mac. I had to either set up Google’s (or other) DNS servers explicitly in emulator settings, I recall running it with emulator -avd Pixel_2_API_28 -dns-server 1.1.1.1

[wasyl]

the emulator is very slow though but I guess that’s normal

Depending how slow, but I wouldn’t say it’s normal. Emulator is pretty fast now in all aspects

[wasyl]

Make sure you have HAXM installed and that you enabled kernel extension in settings -> security after that (kextstat | grep intel in terminal yields two entries for me)

[Alessandro Mautone]

I have a similar issue when connecting to my VPN while the emulator is running. Usually rebooting the emulator solves the issue 😅

[jmfayard]

Thanks for the tip, $ kextstat gives me intelhaxm.
Any way it's quick enough that I can work with this

172    0 0xffffff7f84fb3000 0x29000    0x29000    com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (7.5.1) D0CC7B8F-1F62-33B1-BE6B-B5573D2A607B <8 6 5 3 1>

[wasyl]

That should be fine then. You can also verify in AVD Manager that for that emulator you have hardware graphics emulation, perhaps multi-core CPU if your mac allows, and reasonable RAM. And use recommended images, it should be pretty fast (specifically later emulators, like API 28/29)

[Alishen]

Nexus 6 has the hardware graphics option

[mpcjanssen]

I have this issue after the laptop was suspended. Restarting the emulator usually fixes it for me (wiping data is not needed)

[Samuel Michael]

That is quite common for android, I would recommend deleting that avd and creating a new one and don’t get too stuck trying to debug it’s not worth the stress!