appium: UiAutomator exited unexpectedly with code 0, signal null

The problem

Script runs fine on Android 5.1 device, but gives “UiAutomator exited unexpectedly with code 0, signal null” when executed on Android 5.1 emulator or devices/emulators with higher Android versions.

New to Appium, any help would be highly appreciated! Thank you.

Environment

Android Studio - 2.3.1 Selenium - 3.3.1 TestNG - 6.9.10 Appium - 1.6.4 OS- Windows Platform - Android

Details

This script runs fine on Moto G, Android 5.1, API level 22, test completes successfully. However, when I try to run this on Android 5.1 emulator, Samsung Galaxy S7 - Android 6.0.1 and Samsung Galaxy S8+ - Android 7.0, the Gradle build completes successfully but test doesn’t launch and Appium server (1.6.4) gives error - “UiAutomator exited unexpectedly with code 0, signal null” .

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/HS1219/042e7dd3a82a0547bd2d9bfb9b962477

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

WebDriver driver;
@Before
public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException {
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "Moto G");
capabilities.setCapability("newCommandTimeout", 120);
//capabilities.setCapability("chromedriverExecutable", "C://Users//Eclipse//Drivers//chromedriver.exe");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Chrome");
capabilities.setCapability("launchTimeout", "100000");
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "5.1");
//capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.launcher");
//capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main");
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");
System.out.println("Android Device browser launched successfully");
}