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Android Virtual Device Super Slow - Is Your Computer Too Slow?

If I want to work / test using my AVD, the Android emulator is very slow, barely usable. Im developed using eclipse and just tested the helloWorld application, but it all happens too slowly. Is this the hardware of my computer? Details:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2.21 Ghz 2 GB RAM Windows XP

I know how it works with coal, but it's really just a phone emulator. What is your opinion?

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I had the same problem. The emulator was slow as hell. You can speed it up significantly by changing the heap size allocated to it in the AVD manager. Go to AVD Manager → Select your device → Click the Details button. The heap size is likely to be 24 or 48 (vm.heapSize: 24). Here, as you increase the size of the heap.

AVD Manager → Choose a device → Change → Hardware section (the same window) → Select the “Maximum application of VM application” property → Double-click and edit the value to 512 or higher.

Restart the emulator (if it is already running).

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This is a very slow emulator. The best option is, of course, a test on a real phone.

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I am using Intel Core2 Quad @ 2.33HZ, 2.33Hz with 3 GB of RAM. It will take about 20 seconds to download the application after making the changes. You must upgrade your computer to test your applications on an emulator. If you have an Android device, then good. Your computer will work fine.

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As cjk says, the emulator is incredibly slow. It fully emulates the core ARM architecture and can only be single-threaded. The best you can do to help him assign it to a smaller core being used and increase the priority / subtlety of the process.

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I had the same type of specifications on my computer during development, because the emulator is too slow to work. What is your screen resolution? In my case, connecting to the monitor accelerated the emulator, really lame.

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My current LCD screen resolution is 1600 * 900, and I'm using Windows 7. Its performance is beautiful.

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I have a macbook air (not very powerful), the emulator was too slow. This happened because the Hosting Options Use Host GPU was ticked off in the GPU. It may also help. his fine with:

Device: 3.2 "QVGA target: level 8 RAM memory: 512 heap: 128 emulation parameters: not checked.

hope this helps

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