Android UI Testing on Azure Devops Pipeline

I'm working on an Android app hosted on Azure Devops. We have complete CI/CD setup over there. I wanted to create a new pipeline to run UI tests on an AVD but I can't seem to figure it out. The pipeline I created is very simple, it first runs the script to create an AVD image then runs that image on the emulator

- task: Bash@3
  inputs:
    targetType: 'inline'
    script: |
      #!/usr/bin/env bash

      # Install AVD files
      echo "y" | $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager --install 'system-images;android-35;google_apis;x86_64'

      # Create emulator
      echo "y" | $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/avdmanager create avd -n android_emulator -d "pixel" -k 'system-images;android-35;google_apis;x86_64' --force

      echo "y" | $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator -list-avds

      echo "Starting emulator"

      # Start emulator in background
      nohup $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator -avd android_emulator -no-snapshot -no-window -no-audio -no-boot-anim -accel on > /dev/null 2>&1 &
      
      $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/adb wait-for-device shell 'while [[ -z $(getprop sys.boot_completed | tr -d "\r") ]]; do sleep 1; done; input keyevent 82'

      $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/adb devices

      echo "Emulator started"

And the next step would be simply to run the UI tests on the running emulator and publish the results

steps:
  - task: Gradle@4
    inputs:
      workingDirectory: ''
      gradleWrapperFile: 'gradlew'
      gradleOptions: '-Xmx3072m'
      publishJUnitResults: false
      testResultsFiles: '**/TEST-*.xml'
      tasks: 'connectedStagingDebugAndroidTest'

The problem is the first script gets stuck trying to start the emulator after printing "Starting emulator" even though I'm using the macOS-latest vmImage in the pipeline. Am I missing something? what might be the cause that the emulator doesn't start? and how can I know more information about the errors happening?