Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How long does the Android Emulator take to start? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 8 months ago. Active 7 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 39k times. For me the emulator takes 5 minutes to start, and I find it normal. I try to develop on Netbook. Starting the emulator takes incredibelly long. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Mine seems to fail to open. Is there anything we can do to run a better emulator, this is ridiculous.
A seriously long time. Note, since Android Studio is now the recommended development environment for Android, all of these tips are geared towards Android Studio, although some of them will be applicable to Eclipse users, too. The Android team have recently made some huge improvements to Android Studio, including the addition of Instant Run.
Instant Run promises to make sitting around and waiting for the emulator to re-install your app a thing of the past. However, the way Instant Run applies your updates will vary depending on the nature of those updates; and some updates are easier to apply than others:.
To get the best results out of Instant Run, you might want to try these additional tips and tricks:. Instant Run is enabled by default for projects that use version 2. To install it manually:. This can make the emulator run much faster.
My command looks like this:. Next, launch the emulator you created myemulator with the -gpu on flag, for example:. The AVD will launch with graphics acceleration enabled.
Spend some time interacting with the AVD, and you should notice a speed improvement. You can use these extensions to run the Android emulator inside an accelerated virtual machine, which can improve the execution speed.
By default, the emulator displays a boot animation as it starts up. After making this change to user. If you find a problem with the Android Device Manager that cannot be resolved using the above troubleshooting tips, please file a bug report by right-clicking the title bar and selecting Generate Bug Report :.
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Android Device Manager on Windows This article explains how to use the Android Device Manager to create, duplicate, customize, and launch Android virtual devices. Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin version 4. For each virtual device, the Name , OS Android Version , Processor , Memory size, and screen Resolution are displayed: When you select a device in the list, the Start button appears on the right.
You can click the Start button to launch the emulator with this virtual device: After the emulator starts with the selected virtual device, the Start button changes to a Stop button that you can use to halt the emulator: New Device To create a new device, click the New button located in the upper right-hand area of the screen : Clicking New launches the New Device screen: To configure a new device in the New Device screen, use the following steps: Give the device a new name.
The New Device screen lists only the most commonly-modified properties, but you can click the Add Property pull-down menu at the bottom to add additional properties: You can also define a custom property by selecting Custom Click the Create button lower right-hand corner to create the new device: You might get a License Acceptance screen.
Click Accept if you agree to the license terms: The Android Device Manager adds the new device to the list of installed virtual devices while displaying a Creating progress indicator during device creation: When the creation process is complete, the new device is shown in the list of installed virtual devices with a Start button, ready to launch: Edit Device To edit an existing virtual device, select the device and click the Edit button located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen : Clicking Edit launches the Device Editor for the selected virtual device: The Device Editor screen lists the properties of the virtual device under the Property column, with the corresponding values of each property in the Value column.
Additional Options Additional options for working with devices are available from the Additional Options … pull-down menu in the upper right-hand corner: The additional options menu contains the following items: Duplicate and Edit — Duplicates the currently-selected device and opens it in the New Device screen with a different unique name. Click Factory Reset to confirm the reset: Delete — Permanently deletes the selected virtual device. For example: Navigate to this location and double-click user.
From the additional options menu, click Reveal in Explorer. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Android - Emulator takes a long time to start up Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 2 months ago. Active 5 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 24k times. So please, what I have to do so that emulator loads up fast every time?
Improve this question. Lucifer 1, 5 5 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Paresh Mayani Paresh Mayani 2 2 gold badges 3 3 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I have the same problem, so I agree this issue is with the emulator itself and not necessarily your hardware or configuration.
Will monitor this post for useful answers. Usual solution is to leave the simulator running, and just deploy latest code versions to it.
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