Cannot load APK on device because non existing emulator appears and disappears in Android Studio 3.3
I have struggled with this from yesterday on my Mac. Port 5556 is taken by an other app and that causes a fake emulator to be shown (in my case it was Videostream app)
Solution (in terminal):
sudo lsof -i:5556
// or any other port that is shown as emulator name, you will get PIDps ax | grep [PID]
It gave me the file that used the port (it was one of the files in Videostream app)- I used AppCleaner app to uninstall Videostream (but simple removal is sufficient)
- I killed the PID with:
kill -QUIT [PID]