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Android Emulator speed Issue - Dead slow

Samuel Fernandes 1605 23-Apr-2015

Why is the Android emulator is very slow? IS there any way to speed up emulator. I am using ecllipse IDE

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Updated on 23-Apr-2015

Samuel Fernandes

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23-Apr-2015

It is not a problem with your environment; it is just that the old emulator from Eclipse is very slow.

Practically, I use a real phone to do my tests. It is faster and tests are more realistic. But if you want to test your application on a lot of different Android versions and don't want to buy several phones, you will have to use the emulator from time to time.

UPDATE: The Android SDK now allows to use an x86-based Android emulator. See

http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm

Use Android Studio : The emulator is fast