ionic-cli: "WARNING: No target specified" error when running "$ ionic run android"

Hi everyone,

I followed all the suggestions in issue #179 but still get the error below when I run $ ionic run android

Running command: /Users/drsedusa/Desktop/temp/my_app/hooks/after_prepare/010_add_platform_class.js /Users/drsedusa/Desktop/temp/my_app
add to body class: platform-android
Running command: /Users/drsedusa/Desktop/temp/my_app/platforms/android/cordova/run 
WARNING : No target specified, deploying to emulator
WARNING : no emulator specified, defaulting to AVD_for_s4

I can’t seem to figure out why I get the WARNING: No target specified error message even though my platforms/android folder seems complete.

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Below is a copy of my system info.

$ ionic info

Your system information:

OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.10.30
Cordova CLI: 4.2.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.3.2
Xcode version: Xcode 6.1.1 Build version 6A2008a 
ios-sim version: 3.0.0

I’d really appreciate the help figuring out what’s going on. Thanks!!

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State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 21

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When you run ionic run android - it is trying to run the application on a simulator or a device. If there is not a simulator or device running, you will most likely get that error.

jbavari on Jan 21, 2015

For me killing and restarting adb server solved the issue adb kill-server adb start-server

btdevn on May 28, 2016

@satish11nov , I had the same issue. The problem is that you have to set up an AVD for the android and install the USB drivers. I didn’t listen to the directions they gave for me, instead I ran the AVD Manager in the android-sdk folder.

Here are the references I used to get rid of that error you had: http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/managing-avds.html and you also need to enable debugging on the phone: http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html#setting-up

alexsandracodes on May 20, 2015