[Android Development] Problem with Emulators

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Hi! I need your help, guys.
I am trying to setup Flutter to learn it, and everything works except Emulator.
On Youtube I saw people to be able to run flutter App either Natively or as an Android/Ios Emulator, but for me only Natively works.

I could’ve gone by without it - but some features are only working on real device or emulator (Google Ads, Revenue Cat (Subscription service)) - So I need them to test the app, those are very important.

Here is my config, don’t ask about it - its a bit of a magic to me but it seems like its working…

let

     #Add Android SDK setup
     android-nixpkgs = pkgs.callPackage (import (builtins.fetchGit {
       url = "https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs.git";
     })) {
       channel = "stable";
     };
     # Create an Android SDK package with selected components
     androidSdk = android-nixpkgs.sdk (sdkPkgs: with sdkPkgs; [
       cmdline-tools-latest
       build-tools-34-0-0
       platform-tools
       platforms-android-34
       emulator
     ]);  

in

Then, in packages:

(pkgs.androidenv.emulateApp {
          name = "emulate-MyAndroidApp";
          platformVersion = "VanillaIceCream";
          abiVersion = "x86_64"; # armeabi-v7a, mips, x86_64
          systemImageType = "google_apis_playstore";
        })  
    androidSdk

And of course, I have accepted the licenses:

  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
  nixpkgs.config.android_sdk.accept_license = true;

I also have setup paths in my bashrc file:

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

These all actions resulted in me successfully building and having my console output versions for these two commands, meaning they are present and working:

avdmanager --help
sdkmanager --version

And now, when VSCode prompts me to select a platform to build the app for - when I select “Create Emulator” option, it begins but quickly ends with such an error:

No suitable Android AVD system images are available. You may need to install these using sdkmanager, for example: sdkmanager "system-images;android-27;google_apis_playstore;x86"

and when I try to execute that command in my terminal, it results in this error:

Warning: Errors during XML parse:                                               
Warning: Additionally, the fallback loader failed to parse the XML.             
Warning: Failed to read or create install properties file.                      
[===                                    ] 10% Installing Google Play Intel x86 A

And I have no idea what to do now.
Can somebody help? Thanks

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Nevermind, too much of a hassle and pain in the ass.
In the end there are 2 solutions for me:

  1. Either load “normal” distro like Linux Mint - and use android studio with emulator - because it lags way less there than on NixOS (don’t know why);

  2. Invest in Macbook or Mac - and launch Iphone emulator easily and quite quickly