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Android Studio – Expo will not run the app Error: could not connect to TCP port 5554: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:5554:

I am using windows 10 and expo 46.0.9.
I was trying to have android emulator for expo app project. I installed Android studio and set the path in environment variables. When i run my app in VS code terminal using

npm run start

and after metro bundling i pressed "a" for android. My AVD mobile appeared on screen but i got following error on the terminal.

Error: could not connect to TCP port 5554: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:5554: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)

I followed a youtube tutorial video. Youtube tutorial for emulator. I searched on google but could not find the solution for android studio for expo.

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  1. 0

    Just code in the terminal

    npm i

    and wait for it to install all he required dependencies
    then restart the project using

    yarn start
    or
    expo start

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  2. 0

    Just wipe the device data and remove node_modules package.

    Then

    npm install 

    npm start

    press A and wait it to install app.

    (I just try this successfully)

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  3. 0

    I found this solution in another post, try this (it worked for me):

    I have just met this issue and noticed that it was happening due to the hanging ADB server. Mine has been solved by running the following commands:

    adb kill-server

    adb start-server
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