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Alexander Shcheblikin
Alexander Shcheblikin

Reputation: 345

Why Uploading project.apk onto device emulator takes so long?

Every time I run a project from ADT to test on a virtual Android device it takes 90+ seconds to upload and another 15+ seconds to "install" it on the device.

Why does it take so long?

Any timeouts I should watch out for? (The eclipse console stays silent.)

Note: project.apk size is about 5MB and computing resources on the development machine are plentiful (i.e. CPU usage is around 5-10%, disk queue length about 0.05 and couple gigs of free RAM available during the "upload" and "install").

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2660

Answers (2)

Uriel Frankel
Uriel Frankel

Reputation: 14622

Solution:

Go to Run -> Run Configurations... -> Target Tab -> Additional Emulator Command Line Options. Add there:

-netspeed full -netdelay none

After doing this the time for uploading went from 2 minutes to 8 seconds.

Edit: I have also found that quitting Skype makes my emulator upload much faster.

Upvotes: 0

Alexander Shcheblikin
Alexander Shcheblikin

Reputation: 345

Not really a solution, but a workaround was found in a similar question:

Slow uploads to running Android emulator

It appears, when the Android emulator is idle its network connection is capped at 2 Mbps and when you wake it by clicking and swiping around the bandwidth magically increases to around 10 Mbps! (At least so on my fairly modern system.)

This obviously makes a difference for uploading largish apps to the emulator.

Upvotes: 2

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