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Tony Scialo
Tony Scialo

Reputation: 5957

Fastest way to start android emulator

I am new to android development and was wondering what is the fastest way to use the android emulator?

My current process is as follows:

  1. Start the android emulator by pressing the "Run app" button (green play button
  2. App emulator takes about 2 minutes to load (I'm ok with it taking this long to load on start)
  3. I make some code changes, and press the "Run app" button again and it takes about another minute or so to move my changes to the emulator.

Is this how long it generally takes? It seems like a long time to have to wait to test changes and can get annoying when trying to write code quickly.

I am currently running on Ubuntu 14.04 if that needs to be stated as well

Upvotes: 1

Views: 245

Answers (1)

Derek Daley
Derek Daley

Reputation: 160

Emulator snapshot is your friend on initial bootup. Also, Genymotion is much faster for development. For speeding up the native emulator, you can try some of these tricks here

Upvotes: 1

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