emulator -avd <avd_name> -gpu on

If you set GPU emulation to Yes for your AVD, then graphicsacceleration is automatically enabled when you run it. If you did not enable GPUemulation when you created the AVD, you can still enable it at runtime.

To enable graphics acceleration at runtime for an AVD:

• If you are running the emulator from the command line, just include the -gpu onoption:

  emulator -avd <avd_name> -gpu on