I was wondering if there was a way to run an Android emulator on another computer than the one I'm coding / building the app from. I have a very nice computer with good components and I want to code and build from it, but I don't have an Intel CPU, which means I cannot use VT-x. Therefore, I'm trying to launch the ARM emulator, but after waiting for about 5 minutes, it still wasn't launched (the android booting screen was still shown).
Therefore, I'd like for my computer to deploy the application on my laptop's Android emulator, because it has an Intel processor. I'm coding in Android Studio. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks a lot,
Ferdz
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I have been using Eclipse and then Android Studio to develop a small app and it all (including the emulator) seemed to go reasonably well, until downloading the latest updates for Android Studio.
Now when I try to run the AVD emulator it gets stuck on the android logo and continually refreshes the screen with a white flash, which looks like it is in synch with the logo refreshing, but doesn't get any further.
I have tried numerous different combinations of device, API, resolution, wiping data, running the emulator from the command line, RAM et. al. for the emulator and different resolutions and refresh rates on my Windows 2008 R2 workstation but nothing works. Can anybody suggest where next to look?
Android studio requires a good integration of hardware as well as OS to run properly running emulator see how munch RAM does it takes run emulator during installation of emulator and use a low quality of emulator first because both android studio and emulator requires different memory space. Coming to the OS and studio works better on UBUNTU, LINUX etc instead on windows and using and if u don't have enough RAM u can use pend-drive as ReadyBoost.
I am trying to learn android on a dell device having 4gb ram and intel pentium chipset. I am trying to run hello world app on a emulator but it actually take much time(more than 5 minutes) to start the process and at the end give error message "Error while waiting for device: Timed out after 300seconds waiting for emulator to come online". As far as testing on device is considered i find it fast and easy.
So my question is that possible to always test an app on real device and skipping the testing on an emulator.
Also suggest me some tips to make my android studio run faster.
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Its always better to test on a real device. Its very fast especially when debugging. If your emulator is taking long to load imagine a situation where you are trying to debug and want to check the app's behaviour after each change in code. Just install the usb drivers and sdk tool that your device's api version is running on
Sure it is!
First of all, enable the developer mode in your device (if it's not enabled already). Info for doing this here.
Then just plug your device via USB and it will appear when you run your project in Android Studio.
NOTE: The first time you attempt to run the project, your phone will ask for permissions, make sure you allow it!
It will be good if we are testing the application in real device rather than emulator if you have the device. But we can't buy different density, different dimension, different android version devices for testing so for that purpose we need to use emulator.
To improve the speed of android emulator install HAXM in your system, it will speed up the emulators.
I am using Android Studio, my system does not support emulator and I don't have any android phone but I want run android application. Is it possible to run android application without emulator and android phone?
You will always need to deploy your applications on Android OS which is only possible on an emulator or Android-phone when developping native-apps. If you're developing hybride applications, you can run your app in a browser and use browser-plugins to simulate the native features of your device. Please keep in mind that there is more than 1 emulator available for Android. The emulator in Android Studio is one of the slowest available. Try using genymotion or BlueStacks, but preferably, Genymotion.
There are different emulators. You can try installing Genymotion. You need an emulator or an android phone to run your app
No. It does not make sense that you would be able to do so, every application for any device needs a platform to run on!
More importantly, why do you say your system does not support emulators? There are many free emulators available online, I personally recommend you try Genymotion.
UPDATE: My guess is that the error you are getting is due to your computer hardware not supporting multiple CPUs such as those found in modern android phones. It might be possible to turn on hardware virtualization in your computer BIOS (usually you press F2 or some such when you are booting up - but this depends on your particular hardware).
The very first thing I would try before anything else is to download Genymotion (as it was also recommended by the other answers), and at least one other emulator before giving up. Have you tried any other emulator other than the default one that comes with Android Studio? Different emulators likely work differently and they might not need hardware virtualization.
If you are unable to use the HAXM based emulator or Genymotion, you are better off buying a handset device.
Otherwise you are limited to running the ARM based emulation which in the SDK manager looks like 'ARM EABI v7a System Image'. The ARM based emulation should be used with GPU acceleration enabled. Best possible performance would be to use the smallest screen possible such as 480x320, 800x480 or 854x480. The larger the screen in terms of pixels, the worse the performance.
Again the best recommendation is to get a Android phone/tablet and do your development there.
I am working on an android application, uing eclipse IDE. However it takes around 10-15 minutes to load my AVD and run the application.
My system Configuration:
RAM 8GB
intel Core2Duo Processor 2.53GHz.
OS: windows 7
Is their any alternative to increase our AVD's speed, without changing my systems hardware configurations.
You can setup an Android Virtual Machine using VirtualBox :
http://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-install-android-in-virtualbox/
And to deploy to the virtual box :
android emulation on virtual box in eclipse
I tried this a while back and it was quite a performance improvement difference. I haven't done this in a while because I bought a pretty high end phone and I just use that now.
Is their any alternative to increase our AVD's speed
Using the x86 emulator will help.
That being said, your computer would appear to have issues. With that configuration, even the ARM emulator should take at most a minute or two, at least on Linux. Windows 7 perhaps adds some more overhead, but I would not expect it to be that much.
Also, bear in mind that you can usually keep your emulator open all day -- you do not have to exit and restart the emulator for most work.
GenyMotion have an Android Emulator that is pretty rapid. (not an AVD)
http://www.genymotion.com/
Genymotion is an emulator using x86 architecture virtualization,
making it much more efficient!
Taking advantage of OpenGL hardware acceleration, it allows you to
test your applications with amazing 3D performance.
It's free for personal use, has preconfigured devices (like N7 or Samsung GS3 etc).
I think you'll really like it.
You can select the snapshot options. On the first next start, a snapshot will be created. This will improve the launch speed of the emulator every other start...
On my system, i am using eclipse ganymede version along the Android SDK and ADT plugin installed. I have created an android AVD (target android 1.5) with 512MB of memory. Its quite frustrating to see the slow boot up of it. It takes around 4-5 mins to complete its boot-up. Is there any way or tweak to speed up this boot up process.
PC config:
P4 2.4 Ghz with 1 GB ram.
You can use the -no-boot-anim command line option which speeds up the boot process by not showing the boot animation while the emulator starts up. It makes an noticeable difference on my system reducing start up time from around 55 seconds to nearer 45 seconds. (In case you're interested this is on a laptop with a Mobile Core 2 Duo L9400 and 3GB of RAM.)
Use a command line like this to start the emulator:
emulator -no-boot-anim #YourAvdName
where YourAvdName is the name of the Android Virtual Device (AVD) image that you want to start.
There is now way of to speed up the boot process. This is the downside of having a real emulator not just a simulator like the Iphone kit offers.
You don't have to quit the emulator after a test run. Just start the emulator at the beginning of your work and close it after you are finished. If you want to test something very quick I often find it easier to just connect my actual device and run my app on the real device, without waiting for the emulator to start up.
There's no real way to cut the time down significantly, and it performs so poorly as a tablet device, it's barely usable. Bottom line, you need a real device to produce production apps. It's good for learning though.
The "emulator" is widely known for being a simulator. It does not:
come with device roms or known emulation for real world devices
off phone or SMS support
have the ability to open listening sockets for incoming requests
etc etc. It is not an emulator like mame. It's a simulator like the iPhone/iPad simulator.
i started off with the default settings on the AVD manager to create a new AVD and it started up kind of ok, about 1-2 mins. later i deleted that and created a new AVD with 8GB internal memory (like the real device i'm using) and startup didn't! i waited 30 mins but still nothing
so i reverted to the default memory (512MB) and it seems to start ok
but i also noticed, its a bad idea to unclick the hardware buttons options, that causes it to load slow too
install virtualbox and use androVM
much better than the emulator
The option that I select so far is to buy a cheap mobile from Kogan.com and use this is your app tester.
Otherwise you can also go and install Genymotion, which is definitely a ++ tool over AVD through Android Studio.
It is fast as well. However, keep in mind that there are many features that will be missing such as google play services. Thus, it is advisable that you buy a device. With Android supported mobile, you could basically do everything and simulate every events such as swipe shake etc...