title: Which Android Virtual Device should be used to launch arm64-v8a APK on Windows?
body: <p>I have a common APK app that utilizes <code>'arm64-v8a' 'armeabi-v7a'</code> ABIs. How should I tune an Android Virtual Device to be able to launch this app?</p>
  <p>I tried different combinations but it still does not work.</p>
  <p>A bit of details</p>
  <p><strong>Environment</strong></p>
  <ul>
  <li>Windows 10, CPU Intel Core i5-10300H, RAM 16GB, a lot of free space on a SSD;</li>
  <li>Android Studio Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 Patch 3;</li>
  <li>Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer) v.7.6.5 is installed;</li>
  <li>Android SDKs 12.0, 11.0 and 10.0 are installed;</li>
  <li>Numerous different virtual devices are installed (see the pictures below).</li>
  </ul>
  <p><strong>Images that were applied</strong></p>
  <ul>
  <li>Apply different system images mainly with API from 26 to 31;</li>
  <li>Images were used from different tabs in the AVD manager (<code>Recommended</code>, <code>x86</code> and <code>Other Images</code>);</li>
  <li>Images with ABI both <code>x86</code>, and <code>x86_64</code>, and <code>arm64-v8a</code>;</li>
  <li>Images with/without Google API, with/without Playstore support.</li>
  </ul>
  <p><strong>Errors that I've got</strong></p>
  <ul>
  <li>Some emulators do not launch. The console says: <code>PANIC: Avd's CPU Architecture 'arm64' is not supported by the QEMU2 emulator on x86_64 host.</code></li>
  <li>The APK was not installed on some emulators, a popup with message appears: <code>INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABI</code></li>
  <li>The app tries to start (a splashscreen is shown) but suddenly closes. I've noticed that <code>logcat</code> outputs such message (<em>perhaps</em> related to the app): <code>Unexpected CPU variant for X86 using defaults: x86_64</code></li>
  </ul>
  <p><strong>Some pictures in addition</strong>
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