Why is the Android tablet emulator so slow? Is there way to speed it up?

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My tablet is not here yet, which is why I have to use the emulator for development for now. But it is soooo slow, and it is almost not usable. Does anybody has any trick to speed it up a bit?

I am working on a very decent machine:

MacBook Pro, 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo, 8G Memory, SSD.

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There are a number of answers to a near identical question here.

I may be doing something wrong, but the tricks to speed up the emulator did not do the job for speeding up the tablet one — Thomas, May 24 '14 at 06:33

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 05 '11 at 18:18

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It is slow because it is emulating an ARM processor on an x86 machine. This means that:

All hardware acceleration is lost and has to be emulated in software, and
All the system calls have to be restructured.

Google is working on better ways of doing graphics, but nothing is released yet.

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:13

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There are no tricks as of yet, and no other Emulators that you can use, Until Google actually makes one. Thank you

answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:13

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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There are a number of answers to a near identical question here.

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:11

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I know a trick. Upgrade to a better CPU, preferably one not subject to laptop limitations.

answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:11

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I too would like to recommend development machines for performing development. – Jul 05 '11 at 18:29

Why is the Android tablet emulator so slow? Is there way to speed it up?

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