diff --git a/pkgs/development/mobile/androidenv/compose-android-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/mobile/androidenv/compose-android-packages.nix
index 217922886df8..e379c12f9716 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/mobile/androidenv/compose-android-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/mobile/androidenv/compose-android-packages.nix
@@ -312,6 +312,12 @@ rec {
           ln -s $i $out/bin
       done
 
+      # the emulator auto-linked from platform-tools does not find its local qemu, while this one does
+      ${lib.optionalString includeEmulator ''
+        rm $out/bin/emulator
+        ln -s $out/libexec/android-sdk/emulator/emulator $out/bin
+      ''}
+
       # Write licenses
       mkdir -p licenses
       ${lib.concatMapStrings (licenseName: