How To Start Android Emulator using ANT

To start the Android Emulator and proceed to the next ant task, this should work:

<target name="start.emulator">
<parallel>
			<daemons>
				<exec executable="${emulator}">
					<arg value="-avd"/>
					<arg value="${my-avd}"/>
			    </exec>
			</daemons>
		</parallel>

	</target>

It should work. Now this is the emulator in the released SDK as when you build the sdk/emulator from source its creating
its own AVD and configuration file entry to use that avd. But for just the released SDK/emulator it should work.