How to increase speed of emulator?

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I have 1 gb RAM in my pc. First when i am creating AVD with RAM size 512 in Eclipse. Then start emulator its speed very slow and on running application its showing message your RAM size compressed to 348. Then i deleted this AVD and created new one with RAM 256. Its work bit faster than the earlier one but still slow speed. And whenever i close AVD its show stop responding message and close after some time. I am using 3.2" QVGA(ADP2)(320*480:mdpi) AVD with target Android:4.2.2-API Level 17. I choose snapshot option. I have seen lots of question regarding this but most of the answers said this is not related to system RAM.

Please if someone know how to solve this problem and increase the speed of emulator help me.

I've not seen the link provided by simon before asking this question. yes it is duplicate. Thank you simon for providing me that link and your help.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '13 at 07:24

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The only way I know is to set CPU as Intel Atom (x86) if You working on Windows.

That's because x86 and Windows use more or less the same architecture and emulator don't have to emulate architecture

answered Dec 16 '13 at 07:24

Gooziec

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yes i am using windows and x86. But your answer is not very clear its hard to understand for me. can you please explain it. – John R Dec 16 '13 at 07:30

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '13 at 07:31

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if you are using pc with intel processor download the latest intel x86 atom system image from SDK manager( see screenshot) and create new avd with this option ...

otherwise i suggest you to use "genymotion" which is virtual device like emulator and it's very fast .. try once.

answered Dec 16 '13 at 07:31

Milan Delvadia

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Any link regarding geny motion? – John R Dec 16 '13 at 07:34
yea sure... http://www.genymotion.com/ and for downloading it https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/launchpad/download/ – Milan Delvadia Dec 16 '13 at 07:36
if you found any issue regarding installing and working on it... let me know – Milan Delvadia Dec 16 '13 at 07:37
any link that explain me about steps involved in above screen shot? And gennymotion is paid one? – John R Dec 16 '13 at 07:43
you can open SDK manager from eclipse and by opening SDk manager, this screen will open.. it will fetch data from internet automatically. – Milan Delvadia Dec 16 '13 at 07:45
You have to check the option for Intel x86 for your SDK version and download it. After that you can create new avd from Intel system image... – Milan Delvadia Dec 16 '13 at 07:46
And i am usin genymotion and its totally free... – Milan Delvadia Dec 16 '13 at 07:47

Rick Falck · Answer 3 · 2013-12-16T09:19:06.600

I found the following:

When setting up the AVD, for CPU/ABI choose intel Atom (x86)
On the same page check the box Use Host GPU

When starting the AVD, look for this in the pop-up with the progress bar:

emulator: device fd:964
HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode
creating window 0 0 270 480

If you get an error about HAXM not working, go to: Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager 1.0.6 (R3), extract the InteHaxm.exe file and move it to the sdk directory, (like \sdk\extras\intel\

For some reason, I was getting an error with the HAXM, and installing the Intel one solved it.

EDIT: You only have 1G RAM on your PC? That's a big problem.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 16 '13 at 08:59

The Android emulator is pretty slow because of the hardware accelerated UI.

On a real device, the rendering is performed using the device's GPU. The emulator, however, uses a software renderer to do that.

If I remember correctly, the UI rendering has been improved to use the GPU more in either Android 3.x or 4.x.

A couple of tips on increasing the emulator performance would be to use the Intel HAXM emulator (along with the intel Atom system images) and to try an use an older 2.x version of Android (2.x should run MUCH better in the emulator, compared to a 4.x).

Using this emulator speeds up the calls for the software rendering routines in the emulator and it can provide quite a bit of a boost.

If you can use an older version of Android (2.x), you should go for that. The performance is a lot better for that than for 4.x versions.

Note: The Intel HAXM emulator requires that you use an OSX or Windows OS with an Intel processor.

score -3 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 16 '13 at 07:28

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Use Android Studio instead of Eclipse. Emulator runs faster on it

answered Dec 16 '13 at 07:28

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If you know how to solve it on eclipse then answer me. – John R Dec 16 '13 at 07:31
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@JohnR - First of all, you didn't mentioned eclipse in your question so i am downvoting your question as well and secondly android studio is way much better and emulator runs quite fast in it – Rahul Gupta Dec 16 '13 at 10:00
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Revenge wow. keep going. – John R Dec 16 '13 at 10:03
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Dude i posted a correct answer. You downvoted it because you needed it only on eclipse. Did you try googling it ? Secondly, you have not mentioned eclipse in your question. So if you can downvote a correct answer, i can too. Thirdly it is a duplicate question. my reasons for downvoting are better – Rahul Gupta Dec 16 '13 at 10:06
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This answer is hilariously incorrect. The emulator is not built into android studio or eclipse and has no dependency to either, therefore the IDE you use has absolutely **NO** bearing on the performance of the emulation. The emulator is included in the android SDK (which is the same for both IDEs assuming you download the same platform tools). – d0nut Nov 05 '15 at 17:29

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