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After using xcode, I realzied how slow the android emulator on eclipse really is. Is it possible to speed it up in anyway? It is even slower in android studios.

Paul Lesny
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    The emulator can be as fast as your computer can run. One way you can do is to keep the emulator open and hot push the code change. But honestly, if this is a problem, use USB and test on real phone – display name Nov 07 '14 at 21:27
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    Leave the emulator running. It's quite slow to start up I agree, but once running, it's fairly quick to re-deploy your app. – Andrew Fielden Nov 07 '14 at 21:33
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    @IsabelHM Though it's technically true that the emulator is as fast as your pc, it still is slow even on high end machines. It's an _Emulator_ not a _Simulator_. – Gumbo Nov 07 '14 at 22:19
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    possible duplicate of [Why is the Android emulator so slow?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554099/why-is-the-android-emulator-so-slow) – Pang Nov 08 '14 at 02:28
  • Buy a decent CPU (quad core, at least 2.600 GHz), and all will go really fast – Phantômaxx Nov 08 '14 at 10:44
  • @Gumbo That's exactly the reason why I recommend him to keep the emulator up and running to avoid the wait (which is what many others recommended). – display name Nov 09 '14 at 13:47

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go to the SDK manager and install HAXM. It won't be installed completely from there. In order to completely install it , go to the sdk folder/extras/intel and find HAXM and then install it from there. my emulator takes some seconds.I have a mac.

Amna Irfan
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