
This can happen due to several reasons including when your antivirus software removes the adb.exe file due to a false alarm. As it turns out, the error message appears when Android Studio is not able to locate the ADB.exe file that is located in the platform-tools folder. While trying to run your app via the Android Studio, you might face the “ Unable to Locate ADB” error message that stops the simulation. It can be used for various purposes as it facilitates a bunch of actions including installing and debugging apps on your device. Thank you for reading.Android Debug Bridge or ADB allows you to communicate with your devices via a command-line interface. If we missed any, let us know in the comments.

Most of the rest simply haven’t been updated or in active development in years and don’t really work well anymore with newer operating systems and hardware.Bliss OS is the best alternative to both of them. It was one of our favorite options while it was available. In any case, you can still find downloads for it, but we don’t recommend them. It declined in quality quite dramatically before the end, so we should’ve taken it off of our list sooner. The official website is down, and the only downloads you can find are from third-party sites. YouWave, a once-popular option, seems to have been discontinued.It has been quite some time since the site went down, so we assume development has ceased. However, the website appears to be down as of the time of this writing. KoPlayer was an outstanding Android emulator for gamers.

However, it is no longer actively updated, so we removed it from the list.


You can still try it out, but you have to browse the official subreddit for download links. AMIDuOS closed its doors officially on March 7th, 2018.Leapdroid was purchased by Google and no longer operates.Former entrants on the list and what happened to them:
