On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 09:26:01 -0000 (UTC), Arlen_Holder wrote:

With experience of 20:20 hindsight, even on old AMD CPUs, it's that easy!

Woo hoo!

Now that I finally was able to get the Microsoft Emulator working with
Android Studio 3.2.1 on an old AMD-based Windows desktop, I was able to
easily run the official Google Android Studio "Your first app" tutorial to
completion:
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/

o The app running in a Nexus 7 emulation displays a screen for text input:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5614359androidstudio42.jpg
o You enter any desired text and hit the "Send" button:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1062599androidstudio43.jpg
o That sends the text to the next level (where all the back buttons work):
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=6870342androidstudio44.jpg

That seems to be the ONLY step-by-step tutorial on those web page (but
maybe I need to root around more?).

Given I'm an average noob (if even that), I wish I could speak with the
writer where what I would tell her would IMPROVE the tutorial for noobs
without adding any complexity.

I suspect it would take her a half hour on the phone to hear me out, and
then another few hours to make her edits, and those improvements alone
would be exponentially better.

Anyway, the first Android Studio tutorial is successfully completed, such
that the app works for what it was intended to do.

For those of you who have never created an Android app, this method of
handholding works, where the hardest part for me was completely unrelated
to the tutorial itself - but was a hardware/software configuration issue
which only shows up on AMD-based systems.