How To Get StartedFigure 74. Adding a New AVD (continued)Click the Create AVD button, and your AVD stub will be created.
To start the emulator, highlight it in the list and click Start... You can skip
the launch options for now and just click Launch. The first time you launch
a new AVD, it will take a long time to start up. The second and subsequent
times you start the AVD, it will come up a bit faster, and usually you only
need to start it up once per day (e.g., when you start development). You do
not need to stop and restart the emulator every time you want to test your
application, in most cases.
The emulator will go through a few startup phases, first with a plain-text
"ANDROID" label: