Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Pouru Lasse <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi>]

"Davyd McColl" <davydm@gmail.com> writes:

> Would apulse not do the trick?
>
> -d
> On 2018-10-30 11:15:14, Pouru Lasse <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without
> having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it
> instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package
> is compiled without PulseAudio, but Android SDK comes with its own
> version of QEMU.
>
> Setting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none, as instructed in Android Studio manual,
> seems to have no effect, and the Gentoo wiki page on Android Studio just
> tells you to install PulseAudio.
>
> I don't mind having no audio at all, I just don't want to install
> PulseAudio. Any options?
>
> - Lasse

I already had apulse installed, but apparently the emulator doesn't look
for the library in the right directory. I copied all the libpulse.*
files under ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib/ and
~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/ and now it seems to work.

- Lasse