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Reputation: 10587

Xamarin Studio Android Emulator Extremely Slow

I am using Macbook Pro 2015. I installed Xamarin Studio and Android SDK

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I created AVD like this

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When I start my AVD, it never moves further than screen showing "android" on it, even 1/2 hour after starting it

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adb devices command shows:

adb devices

List of devices attached

emulator-5554   device

Is there something I am doing wrong in setting my emulator. I am aware that android emulators are slow but it wasn't this slow. I am also aware of HAXM but I found instruction to install them bit to flaky and I dont want to take a risk. I also know about Genimotion but that is not an option for me.

Is there another way to speed up the android emulator?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3958

Answers (2)

Majid Shahabfar
Majid Shahabfar

Reputation: 4829

make sure that Android version of your Target Framework is the same of smaller than Android version of your emulator you have chosen to build.

Upvotes: 0

cosa__
cosa__

Reputation: 96

I had the same problem and I used an alternative solution to fix this problem.

  1. Install VMware or VirtualBox
  2. Download the ISO file of your android platform http://www.android-x86.org/download
  3. Create a virtual machine with the ISO file

You can use these settings:

  • Target OS: Choose Linux
  • Target Os version: Other
  • 1 GB RAM
  • Add a new hard drive: VDI drive, dynamically sized
  • Start the VM

Now you can connect Xamarin to the VM.

  1. Find the path to your Android sdk-platform-tools

  2. Open a terminal in your Host and locate sdk-platform-tools and type ./adb connect

Now you can run your code from Xamarin to the virtual machine, which is really fast compared to simulation from Xamarin.

Upvotes: 1

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