In the latest version of Android Studio, the emulator shows up in a pane in the IDE. This is annoying and absolutely unusable on a small laptop screen. How do I get rid of that and have a separate window as usual?

To get rid of that: AS > File > Settings > Tools > Emulator > uncheck “Launch in a tool window”.

Also keep creating the AVD with the “Cold Boot” setting instead of “Quick Boot”. Most of the time the emulator starts “unpowered” in quick boot, nothing on screen, and no idea on how to fix it.