Why is the Android emulator so slow? How can we speed up the Android emulator?
I have a 2.67 GHz Celeron processor, and 1.21 GB of RAM on a x86 Windows XP Professional machine.
My understanding is that the Android Emulator should start fairly quickly on such a machine, but for me it does not. I have followed all the instructions in setting up the IDE, SDKs, JDKs and such and have had some success in starting the emulator quickly, but that is very rare. How can I, if possible, fix this problem?
Even if it starts and loads the home screen, it is very sluggish. I have tried the Eclipse IDE in version 3.5 (Galileo) and 3.4 (Ganymede).
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- asked 7 years ago
- G John
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Android Development Tools (ADT) 9.0.0 (or later) has a feature that allows you to save state of the AVD (emulator), and you can start your emulator instantly. You have to enable this feature while creating a new AVD or you can just create it later by editing the AVD.
Also I have increased the Device RAM Size to 1024 which results in a very fast emulator.
Refer the given below screenshots for more information.
Creating a new AVD with the save snapshot feature.
Launching the emulator from the snapshot.
And for speeding up your emulator you can refer to Speed up your Android Emulator!:
- answered 7 years ago
- Community wiki
Try Android x86. It's much faster than the Google Android emulator. Follow these steps:
- Install VirtualBox.
- Download the ISO file that you need.
- Create a virtual machine as Linux 2.6/Other Linux, 512 MB RAM, HD 2 GB. Network: PCnet-Fast III, attached to NAT. You can also use a bridged adapter, but you need a DHCP server in your environment.
- Install Android x86 on the emulator, run it.
- Press Alt+F1, type
netcfg, remember the IP address, press Alt+F7. - Run cmd on your Windows XP system, change the directory to your Android tools directory, type
adb connect <virtual_machine_IP>. - Start Eclipse, open the ADT plugin, find the device, and enjoy!
- answered 7 years ago
- Community wiki
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