Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Android Studio sound problems on Kubuntu

Mucis palyers glitch when Android Studio emulator is running.

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cd ~/.android/avd

nano Medium_Phone_API_30.ini


avd.ini.encoding=UTF-8

path=/home/user/.android/avd/Medium_Phone_API_30.avd

path.rel=avd/Medium_Phone_API_30.avd

target=android-30

hw.audioInput = no

hw.audioOutput = no

audio.backend=none

Turning audio off NOT WORKING!!!


Before starting Android Studio:

export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none

Turning audio off NOT WORKING!!!


~/.android/avd$ emulator -avd Medium_Phone_API_30 -no-audio

Command 'emulator' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install google-android-emulator-installer


emulator -avd Medium_Phone_API_30 -no-audio

PANIC: Cannot find AVD system path. Please define ANDROID_SDK_ROOT


Add to ~/.bashrc:

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk

export ANDROID_HOME=$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT

export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/emulator:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/platform-tools


Reload: source ~/.bashrc


emulator -avd Medium_Phone_API_30 -no-audio -verbose

Turning audio off WORKS!!!

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