Launch the Emulator, it should be faster, but not as fast as the one we’ve created using the AVD Manager because we didn’t select the option to use the GPU host. If you use Titanium Studio, you can configure the Android Emulator to use the x86 image too.Ĭlick on ‘Run Configurations”, select the project you’re working on and then choose the version of Android you want to test with the label “x86”: tools/emulator -avd Test_for_fast_emulator -wipe-data -no-boot-anim -cpu-delay 0 We can go further! Edit the device configuration and check the “Use GPU Host” in the “Emulation options” section, it will allow the emulator to use the computer GPU instead of emulating one. This configuration with the HAXM driver, easily installed, will let you run a faster emulator. If you select a target that has an x86 image (let’s try with Android 4.2.2), you should be able to switch the CPU/ABI to “Intel Atom (x86)”. There’s a list with all your devices, just create a new one. Now that you have installed everything, you need to configure your devices, just use the “Tools” menu to launch Android Virtual Device Manager (AVD Manager). To do so, go to your Android SDK’s installation folder, then go to extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager/ and execute IntelHAXM.dmg.

If you scroll at the bottom of this screen, you’ll see an “Extras” folder, expand it and select the “Intel x86 emulator accelerator (HAXM)” to download it. Select the versions you want to test and install them. You can see that there is an “Intel x86 Atom System Image” available for Android 4.2.2, 4.1.2, 4.0.3 and 2.3.3. Ok, but what can I do about it?įirst thing to do is to launch the Android SDK Manager, go to your Android SDK’s installation folder, and type: $. All those things combined plus the fact that smartphones have some very powerful chipsets lead to a very slow emulator. Furthermore, other hardware features are also emulated by the software.

I surely don’t need to explain why emulate a processor by a software isn’t a very good idea if you want something reactive and usable.

The Android Emulator is based on QEMU (the Quick EMUlator) which emulates an ARM processor on your computer which has a x86 processor. It is so painful to debug with it that if you develop on Appcelerator’s JavaScript-based Titanium SDK, you only use the iPhone Simulator every time, except when you want to test something specific on Android. There is no real issue with the iPhone simulator, but Google one is very, very, very slow. If you develop applications for iOS and Android, you probably have used the iPhone Simulator and the Android Emulator. Please contact us to get a fresh insight of our expertise! This article is now 8 years and 3 months old, a quite long time during which techniques and tools might have evolved. Speed up your Android Emulator! 27 juin 2013

Configurez votre Android Emulator pour qu’il soit rapide… ⇒

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