Exception during AvdManager initialization : expected a non-null reference

Issue

When I run the following command :

c:\SDKs\android\cmdline-tools\8.0\bin\avdmanager.bat -v create avd -n android13 -k "system-images;android-33;google_apis;arm64-v8a"

I receive the error :

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Error: Exception during AvdManager initialization
Error: null
expected a non-null reference

What is going wrong ?

Solution

Android Studio on Windows now defaults to PowerShell:

cd .\cmdline-tools\latest\bin
.\sdkmanager.bat --list
.\avdmanager.bat -v create avd -n android13 -k "system-images;android-33;google_apis;arm64-v8a"

Directory cmdline-tools\latest\bin could also be added to PATH.

Or to install: cmdline-tools;latest

Answered By - Martin Zeitler