I had downloaded Android Studio on my M1 MacBook air but I can't run the emulator and it just gives me an error. I search Android Studio requirements for mac and it says that it requires mac os 10.10 or higher and a minimum of 2 GB disk space and 4GB of ram. Anyone have this issue and how do I solve it?
I try download the arm image android studio it is stuck on the loading screen for the emulator.
As for now (19/11/2020) any of the Virtualization tools do not work with the new Apple M1 macs. So things like docker, emulators etc. We might have to wait a bit until this is fully supported unfortunately.
Good news !
Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈
Apple Silicon Support
There is an arm64 release version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1)
You can download it here https://developer.android.com/studio/archive
When NDK runs into Unknown host CPU architecture: arm64 you can solve it here
End of beta ! Thank you
Edit on March 2021
I can confirm, this preview of Emulator works properly
https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
In the blog there is a link to a private repo (2021-Jan-04). They moved repo to google and there you find V3 https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases
Since v3 even audio-out works (no audio-in)
Edit on 4th Feb 2021
Now audio in and out works properly https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/issues/10#issuecomment-773532762
Edit March 2021
You can simply use one of them and it's working out of the box
On August release notes you can see on the emulator for Arm host section an entry where they said the support for M1 is in progress.
Check the link below:
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator#emulator_for_arm64_hosts
As of today the android emulator is up and working on the Apple Silicon here's a working demo from a googler
source: https://twitter.com/GoogleLfy/status/1332474914398322689
And the known issues here: https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
we can expect the stable release by the end of 2020
here's a conversation about the same https://www.reddit.com/user/lfy_google/
Android studio has still not released a modified version for M1 macs, the version you are running, was originally made for intel chips, and is running via rosetta2. And rosetta does not support virtualisation, so you cant run emulator, but you could do all else coding stuff with minor bugs, for testing your code you may use a physical android device and it works just fine...please let me know if further problem exists...
This is the working emulator done by Android developers https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview
it works like a charm
I heard that the emulator won't work due to arm architecture of the apple silicon. Using a phone for debugging might be the only option. I also heard that android studio were working on an update for the M1.
For other ARM devices, it should be involved as an Instruction Set problem, in that case you can go to the AVD Manager of your AS and when create new virtual device, make sure to download the system image with arm64-v8a ABI, which is shown as bellow.
For Mac M1 chip, these arm64 images can not solve the problem and for now the best way is to wait Google release the compatible images.
There is a rudenmentary beta of the emulator for Mac M1 here
github link
Android has released beta emulator for M1 chipset
Please check this think to beta release
https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html?m=1
Currently, Android Studio only supports the HAXM Intel version (which isn't compatible with ARM processors) of virtualization, to run the emulator. But maybe in the coming weeks they might release the compatible versions for apple silicon processors. Till then the only option is to use a physical device.
there is an Android Emulator Apple Silicon Preview in the next documentation
https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
android studio have made a rough initial preview of the emulator running on Apple Silicon.More details are available in this link below
https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
Also you can download DMG file from GitHub:
https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview
On my M1 machine, the emulator would get stuck ( not open ) and the dock icon would say 'qemu-system-aarch64' and then that was it.
I managed to get the emulator to start by running it via the terminal and adding the gpu host flag
emulator -gpu host -avd Pixel_5_API_32
P.S. I couldn't find the right stack issue, so I'm leaving this here.
It's because the new M1 chips run on arm Architecture and not x86.
You have to download the arm compatible virtual devices those are available in the other images tab inorder to run those emulators.
Also try this:
Wipe data of the virtual device by right clicking it in AVD Manager, then rerun the project.
Check the Android Emulator box in SDK Manager -> SDK Tools
Download the android-emulator-m1-preview.dmg from
https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases
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I am unable to create a virtual device on Android studio on my MacBook air. For all the system images it says that your CPU does not support VT-x. What is the solution or a probable alternative t use a virtual android device on MacBook air with the new M1 chip
You can't create an emulator directly on Android Studio, not yet, although, you can use this repository that google created
https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview
Here you can find the installers for Mac:
https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases
Just install as any other software and when you open the emulator Android Studio will, automatically, recognize it.
Currently, no official stable emulator supported for M1 macs. Things are still in the development phase. Information is provided in the previous answer. Until official support comes, I suggest you use a physical device for testing of the application.
Now you can create an emulator for M1 mac:
Android Studio Dolphin, build from September 29, 2022; includes arm64-v8a out of the box under the ARM images tab which works well with M1 mac.
I've tried to run android emulator on an Apple M1 chip MacBook but it doesn't work and AVD Manager shows an error with the message: Could not start AVD. It seems the root of this problem is that M1 chip doesn't support virtualization and AVD needs VT-x for x86 images. Most of the images are based on x86 and arm based images aren't provided for latest android versions. Is there any solution to bypass this issue? (Except using physical devices and old images)
create AVD with arm64 based image will help to resolve the issue.
UPDATE: Here is the link to the Android Emulator Apple Silicon Preview:
https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
They are working on it, but it will take time. I found some preview on Twitter - Preview of Android simulator on M1 And some solutions will be available at the end of the year. Maby.
And good source for the following is here on Reddit: ARM-based Macs for Android Development?
I doubt there is a workaround as the AVD uses Intel based API's to run the emulator, and because Apple broke up with Intel it won't work. You might just have to use a physical device or wait for a update.
That being said, there is work being done to support ARM based hosts.
Good news !
Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈
Apple Silicon Support
There is an arm64 release version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1)
You can download it here https://developer.android.com/studio/archive
NDK builds doesn't work Unknown host CPU architecture: arm64
Solved https://stackoverflow.com/a/69540773/1079990
End of beta ! Thank you
Emulator in the image below is one of the fastest emulator in xamarin. I have 2 computers and 1 of them has this emulator somehow installed. whatever I tried and I searched all over, I cant find out how to install this emulator on my other computer. Does anybody know how do I get this emulator. something similar described here but it is not the same at all.
I have already api level 23 and intel atom(x86) for this api level installed
I have installed extras in android sdk manager as below
There are two ways of getting an x86 enabled emulator.
First is by installing the Intel HAXM emulator. To do so open Xamarin Studio click on tools and open SDK Manager. In the Extras folder you will see an entry Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator.
An even simple solution is to install Android Studio and during the installation set the SDK path to the one configured inside Xamarin Studio. The benefit is, that you can use Android Studio for stuff like memory monitoring, CPU usage and such as well as getting a better designer for your layouts.
I described it for Xamarin Studio but the steps basically applies to Visual Studio as well.
I found the answer for my question. Just for anyone who will have same interest here is the answer. I dislike xamarin android emulators in general. I used to test my app using real device rather. Advantages were,
I didnt need any virtualization whatever hassle to be installed like hyper v
They occupy a lot of space on my ssd drive
but this emulator is beautiful, fast and light. It occupies only around 700mb. I highly recommend this emulator to anyone.
It comes with VS 2017 RC installation but you dont need to install VS 2017. It is also working with VS 2015. Just download the VS 2017 installer and choose the emulator only from the list.
PS, I guess most of the xamarin presentations made by microsoft and xamarin is with this emulator :)
I've setup the latest Xamarin Android Player (XAP) on my AMD64 server running Windows Server 2012
Hyper V has been uninstalled.
Before doing so I uninstalled Virtual Box and let XAP install its version.
When I start XAP with device Nexus 7 Lollipop it boots to the Android logo and goes no further.
What is wrong?
You need to post errors and logs.
VirtualBox should be installed I believe for the Android Xamarin emulator to work.
However, you could try reinstalling the Android player. Make sure virtualization is enabled in bios.
If worse comes to worse, you can install the Android AVD manager and use the normal Android emulator which also works on Xamarin.
The Xamarin Android Player is still in preview, any issues with can be addressed with bug report at https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/newbug
Please include the logs when you file a bug, you can generate logs by Right-click bottom bar > Generate Bug Report
In the meantime, I would recommend you to use Visual Studio Android emulators
In addition to what Prashant suggests, you can also try a different simulator image. Some of the XAP device images seem to be unable to boot properly on some machines. I've not seen any issues under OSX version of XAP, but the Windows version seems to be affected on some systems.
I was trying Android Studio - successfully installed it but couldn't launch the emulator and the error message was Intel Haxm wasn't installed. I checked my setting and realized it was installed.
I tried to re-run it several times and the same thing happened.
I tried to install SDK 17 and the error was still there.
May I know what might be causing this? And how should we solve it?
Thank you.
You was created an AVD with Intel Atom system image, so make sure that your CPU is Intel. If yes, see this instructions about installing HAXM on your computer.
If HAXM won't to be installed, please make sure that your CPU is strong enough to use HAXM. Then, change the system image of your AVD to ARM-v7 or Armeabi.
System image also called with CPU type of the emulator on AVD.
Another option to run Android Apps on computer:
If you are not able to use Android Studio Emulator (at all after trying above given solutions), then you can use Genymotion. It comes with free as well as paid versions. You can download this software on your Windows/Mac/Linux based computer and configure it with Android Studio/Eclipse.
Watch this video for more details: Install and configure Genymotion with Android Studio
Genymotion is fast and reliable and also has latest (till Lollipop 5.0) android support and provides many emulator themes as well.
I hope this answer helps you if above mentioned solution doesn't work.