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RollRoll
RollRoll

Reputation: 8462

Android emulator unbelievable slow in Windows 7

I have a nice PC Desktop that I run all my development applications, Visual Studio, SQL Server instance running, Eclipse, Spring Eclipse etc... everything is fairly fast.

But when I run a simple, little, empty android hello world app, it takes literally 3 or more minutes for the Android get started!!! I don't believe I am the only one experiencing that? I don't want to run in the device every single time... usually it is handy run in the emulator just like I do with XCode to IPhone simulator...

any experience with that? solution tips?

thanks

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7942

Answers (4)

Mikalai Daronin
Mikalai Daronin

Reputation: 8716

You can use android-x86 (helpful post). x86 port works faster than emulator, but I recommend use a real device to avoid emulator-specific problems.

Upvotes: 2

RollRoll
RollRoll

Reputation: 8462

So far, there is no solution for that...I have to buy a nexus to run my apps to make the development viable

Upvotes: 1

Ashl
Ashl

Reputation: 1259

There is an Android emulator called Bluestacks that you can use for apps as well. It is less for development and more for playing Android games on your PC, but if you don't mind testing your app in a non-standard launcher environment then it is super fast.

You can even use it for debugging and access DDMS from Eclipse as well by following these steps:

  1. Open Bluestacks
  2. In your 'platform-tools' folder in command prompt, type "adb connect 127.0.0.1"
  3. Try to run your app or debug from Eclipse and you should see a new device listed for Bluestacks.

It doesn't have the same type of hardware/environment emulation that the normal emulator does, so it will not be appropriate for testing all apps, but I use it whenever I can because the normal emulator is such a headache.

Upvotes: 2

Raghav Sood
Raghav Sood

Reputation: 82563

The Android emulators, especially the older ones, are notoriously slow. This is because they not only have to run an OS in an OS, but they must also emulate an ARM processor Architecture, on a x86 or x64 processor. This makes them rather slow.

However, you do get Intel images for ICS, which are built for x86 and run faster. You could also try using the older emulators. They got progressively slower upto honeycomb. You could also try increasing the emulator RAM and get a minor speed boost.

Other than that, you could leave the emulator running once started, as then it's much faster to test your apps, since you don't need to start it up everytime.

However, I would personally recommend testing on a device, as you will never get the same quality and accuracy in debugging on an emulator.

Upvotes: 1

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