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clifgray
clifgray

Reputation: 4419

Improving speed on Android Emulator

Hello I am running a W510 Lenovo Laptop which is generally rapid in most computing circumstances but when running Eclipse and trying to run the AVD emulator it is like molasses. I know that there are some alternative emulators and that I can improve the RAM on the emulator but what other ways can I speed it up.

I am thinking of upgrading from 4GB of RAM on my Lenovo to 12GB would this make a big difference?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1314

Answers (2)

Mohit
Mohit

Reputation: 11314

Hope this may work for others: I've faced the same problem with my high config pc have 3i 4GB , but the emulator works so slow I found something that worked for me and hope it may work for others i would love to share it here

i've just added Device ram size to My existing AVD and set the size to 1000MB(Because i've enough to allot mine is 6GB) No the speed of my AVD was ultimate hope it may help you.

EDIT 1:

You may also set some attribute for better performance like set GPU Emulation = yes

GPU Emulation Settings

Upvotes: 1

EternalMelody
EternalMelody

Reputation: 121

If you have a dedicated GPU, try turning GPU acceleration on to significantly boost graphics performance. It is turned off by default. To turn it on, edit the AVD you use, and on the hardware section, click "New". Find "GPU emulation", add it, and set the value to yes.

Assuming that you only run eclipse, the emulator, and a bunch of Chrome tabs (no other RAM hungry processes going on), 4GB should be enough. My setup also has 4GB RAM with no swap space and if you check system monitor, most likely you still have spare free RAM. I personally still have 800 MB of free RAM when all of those things are open (with device ram size set to 512 MB).

Upvotes: 3

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