How to downgrade Android Emulator
Google support said I could download old Android Emulator versions as follows:
http://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-4266726.zip (for Mac) http://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-windows-4266726.zip http://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-linux-4266726.zip
Basically, just put the # (the one in major.minor.patch-#) along with darwin/windows/linux if you'd like to download any previous build.
To install on my Mac computer, I did as follows:
Download http://dl.google.com/android/repository/emulator-darwin-4266726.zip via Chrome into ~/Downloads
Backup the main emulator directory:
mv ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator ~/Downloads/emulator-backup
Replace the main emulator directory:
mv ~/Downloads/emulator ~/Library/Android/sdk/
Restart Android Studio
After that, the Android Emulator version was downgraded to 26.1.4-4266726.
- Download an older version of emulator from emulator-windows-5395263.zip and replace it with the existing emulator in
..AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator
. - Restart the Android studio and in terminal run the following command
emulator -avd avd_name -gpu mode
, and this will initialize emulator. Mode can be host, guest.. etc For more clarification visit the following link