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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Getting Started with Android Running the Fun Facts Project

Thomas Sinaguglia
Thomas Sinaguglia
402 Points
Posted by Thomas Sinaguglia
Thomas Sinaguglia
402 Points

App presents black screen, how do I fix this?

When I look through the logcat it keeps running and running and then it displays a bunch of random words and sentences in red along with, "ERROR: failed to open framebuffer (No such file or directory), aborting ". Then it continues running.

I looked on stack overflow and the only solution that I have found to this problem is to check off "Use host GPU" when creating the AVD (which I have). Another solution I have found is us less RAM ( I went down to 500 mb). I still get the black screen and I have also tried exiting and rebooting android studio.

Can anyone help with this problem, that would be great!

Thanks alot :)