I want to Have an Android L Emulator in my AVDs , I used to use Genymotion for android developement,
but till now genymotion doesn't supports android L.
I'm using Windows 8.1 x64 ,an Intel Processor, and HAXM Installed.
Which system Images should i Download and Use ?
What's The Differences between :
Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image
Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System
Image
Should i download both for this Purpose?
I want an Emulator Which is Fast as Possible that Supports Google API too.
Thanks Alot.
If your processor is Intel and supports hardware virtualization, use an Intel x86 Atom Image and install Intel x86 Emulator Accelarator (HAXM installer) under Extras.
However, you still need to manually install the HAXM after downloading it. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager and run intelhaxm-android.exe
And don't forget to check "Use host GPU" as previously suggested.
Both are full images, the Google APIs one isn't an add-on.
The only difference between the two is the support for Google APIs that is only in 2., both 64bit images are as fast.
You should tick "Use host GPU" setting instead of Snaphost as Snapshot will save you start time but the emulator will be overall slower.
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I have Installed HAXM for linux 64bit and KVM installed successfully.
Hardware supports VT.
VT enabled in bios.
Installed Intel x86 Atom System Images for desired API's.
Still can't change CPU/abi to Intel x86 using ADV Manager.
This was working for my previous machine with eclipse Indigo,Now not working with ADT bundle From Developers site
ADT Bundle
When you create your AVD, be sure to select the API level for which you have an x86 image installed. In your screen caps above, you show that you have x86 images installed for API level 15 and API level 10. If you are creating an AVD with API level 19, you will not be able to select the x86 image since it is not installed.
It was problem with ADT version.
I updated ADT version to latest 22.6 and now it is working properly.
Thanks for advices though.
can you check your permissions for your SDK folder ?
ls -al /home/pankaj/PankajWorkplace/DevelopmentTools/sdk/system-images/android-15/*
Maybe your AVD Manager doesn't use the right location. If you launch it from eclipse, is eclipse configured to use the Android SDK in /home/pankaj/PankajWorkplace/DevelopmentTools/sdk ? You can change this path from eclipse Window -> preferences -> Android.
I use AMD FX X6 6300 type processor. (it supports virtualization and my BIOS setting is ON)
I installed "Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator". When I tried to run Intel accelerator setup, I get that setup is unable to install. (error was virtualization)
SDK Manager has these system images options:
Android 4.2.2
Intel x86 Atom System Image
ARM EABI v7a System Image
MIPS System Image
So does it make sense to download Intel x86 system image ? Or is it useless without installing HAXM ?
Should I download ARM or MIPS images ? What would you recommend for emulator system images for an AMD processor ?
Or the only option is using snapshots?
According to the Android documentation for the emulator, the x86 image specifically requires an Intel processor. When they say:
...Virtual machine acceleration for Windows requires the installation of the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel HAXM). The software requires an Intel CPU with Virtualization Technology (VT) support...
They are referring not just to supporting "Virtualization", but to a specific set of processor extensions only available on recent Intel processors.
Use the ARM system image. It will get the job done, it just won't feel like you are running a native Android system.
As mentionned, HAXM won't work on non-intel CPUs.
So the X86 image won't be any faster than the ARM one (at least, in my experience on an AMD Phenom X6.)
An speedier alternative is to use GenyMotion.
It is free for personal use
An order of magnitude faster than the built-in android emulator.
It integrates nicely with ADT (Eclipse) once you follow the detailed user guide
I bumped into the same problem with after Windows 10 October update (1809) with my AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU.
There is the full solution tested on 3-Oct-2018:
Get latest Windows 10 update. (You can check your windows version by right click the left bottom corner window button, then select System) Currently, the October update (1809) won't download automatically, you have to download from here
Search "Turn windows features on or off", and check the "Windows Hypervisor Platform" (this option only appears when your Windows on version 1803 or higher)
IMPORTANT: Turn on AMD SVM! This option should be in somewhere under your BIOS menu. If your motherboard doesn't support AMD SVM, don't waste time, your computer doesn't support hardware acceleration for now.
For my Gigabyte B450 Aorus PRO Wifi with BIOS version F2, it's under:
Restart computer, click "Delete" button to open BISO menu, M.I.T. -> Advanced Frequency Settings -> Advanced CPU Core Settings -> SVM mode -> Enabled (This varied based on different motherboard manufactures)
Check your Android Studio version. The latest stable version works (3.2.1 when written)
Check your Android Emulator version. The latest stable version works (28.0.16 when written)
Now you should able to create a virtual device with a recommended system image, Oreo 27 x86 Android 8.1 (Google Play) works.
Under "Verify Configuration", you will see "Emulated Performance" -> "Graphics" is set to "Automatic" and cannot be changed, but it's OK, you emulator should still run.
If you like to use graphics hardware acceleration (Hardware - GLES 2.0), go to x86 Images, and select an ABI with x86_64 architecture.
NOTE: Do NOT install "Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer)". The installation will fail, and you don't need it for AMD CPU at all!
Android Emulator - AMD Processor & Hyper-V Support in Windows 10.
You need the following setup requirements to be in place:
1. Android Emulator v27.3.8+ - download via Android Studio SDK Manager.
2. x86 Android Virtual Device (AVD) - Create AVD.
3. Windows 10 Update.
4. Enable via Windows Features: "Windows Hypervisor Platform"
Select - Windows Hypervisor platform
Note: Enable via Windows Features: "Hyper-V" - Only available for Windows 10 Professional/Education/Enterprise
I am new to Android development. I am setting up development environment.
So my question is, what is Intel x86 atom system image in Android SDK manager?
Should i install it or not?
The option is present in API level 15 & 16 but not in 17.
Thanks.
So my question is, what is intel x86 atom system image in android sdk manager?
It is a version of the Android emulator that runs natively on x86 CPUs, like those in most development machines.
Contrast that with the ARM system image, which contains ARM (not x86) CPU instructions, and therefore must be translated when run.
Should i install it or not?
The x86 emulator images, where available, tend to run faster. You will have to do some work on your development machine to take advantage of them, as is outlined in the documentation.
the option is present in api level 15 & 16 but not in 17.
AFAIK Google relies upon Intel to create these images, and Intel has only done so on a few API levels.
The x86 Android* emulator system image enables you to run an emulation of Android on your development machine. In combination with the Android SDK, you can test your Android applications on a virtual Android device based on Intel Architecture
Whether I should install this?
Yes, if you are using Intel processor. To check if your intel processor support Virtualization Technology(VT), use Intel Processor Identification Utility tool.
Note: If your CPU does not support virtualization technology(VT),
then you cannot use virtual machine acceleration.
In order to install the emulator image add-on, you can use the Android SDK Manager (Recommended Method):
Install Guide(Recommended Method)
Alternately, you can download the binary zip file and unzip and copy the included directory into the add-ons directory of your Android SDK installation. (Note that this method does not allow for automatic updates of the add-on):
Install Guide(Alternate/Manual Method)
Hope this helps.
I've installed the new tools without problems. I've installed the Intel HAXM. I've verified (with sc query intelhaxm) that the Intel service is running. I've also confirmed the machine (a Lenovo ThinkCentre) supports Intel Virtualization Technology.
So why in the AVD Manager is the CPU/ABI field fixed at ARM for every single platform version of Android?
At the time of this writing, the only available x86 emulator image is for Android 2.3.3 (API Level 10), listed in the SDK Manager as "Intel Atom x86 System Image". Hopefully others will become available in the future.
BTW, for those reading this question and answer and going "huh?", the r17 edition of the Android developer tools added support for native x86 emulators, which will run somewhat faster than their ARM emulator equivalents.
You can download Android emulator images direct from Intel's website. Here they have a KitKat image that looks to be API 19 (4.4).
Just to keep this question up to date:
Like CommonsWare said, at the time of that writing, the only Intel x86 images available were API 10. Some time ago Intel started updating images in sync with SDK releases.
In order to use the images, you may download them from the SDK Manager, or follow Intel's Instructions (4.3-specific, but apply generally).
Despite what you use, note an important point of the instructions:
select non-"Google APIs" targets (e.g. "Android 4.3 - API Level 18") - the AVD Manager won't let you change CPU to x86 unless using vanilla droid targets.
I had a startup issue on ubuntu as well. To get it working I used the -disable-kvm option. Took three days to find this solution.
./emulator -avd i -noaudio -nojni -netfast -show-kernel -verbose -gpu on -cpu-delay 0 -qemu -m 512 -disable-kvm
I've upgraded to android sdk tools 12.
As a release note google says:
The AVD manager and emulator can now use system images compiled for ARM v7 and x86 CPUs.
Has anyone tried to run a x86 image? Are there any 3.0+ images?
Thanks,
In the GUI of the SDK for emulator configuration, the CPU type drop down box is disabled. Probably this is something they are preparing for the release 13 of the Android SDK tools. (it is also possible that non of my installed platform revision have x86 images)
I tried to run one of my emulator images as x86 explicitly, and get this:
C:\Program Files\Android-SDK\tools>emulator-x86.exe -avd HTC_Magic
qemu: linux kernel too old to load a ram disk C:\Program Files\Android-SDK/platf
orms\android-4\images\/kernel-qemu, C:\Program Files\Android-SDK/add-ons\addon_g
oogle_apis_google_inc_4\images\/ramdisk.img, qemu=1 console=ttyS0 android.qemud=
ttyS1 androidboot.hardware=goldfish clocksource=pit android.checkjni=1 ndns=2
I think the emulator image needs to be created explicitly for x86... Would be nice to have an x86 image so the performance of underlining qemu goes up, as it will not need to emulate ARM CPU instruction set...
You can already run http://www.android-x86.org/ and connect to it with adb over tcpip right now. You do not need the SDK support for it. And it is very fast.
Otherwise if you install the Google TV add on on linux you can create a Google TV avd and that will use x86. It really works nicely only on Linux though since that is where it is tunneled to the hypervisor properly.
There are various blog post around on how to set that up properly e.g. http://commonsware.com/blog/2011/09/01/google-tv-emulator-seemingly-pointless.html
You should install Intel® Atom™ Android x86 Emulator Image.
You could find detailed instructions at this link
You can build your own android x86 emulator from the AOSP. Here are the instructions from the Intel website:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/android-ia-emulator-gingerbread/
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/android-virtual-device-emulation-for-ia/
updated article provides info about using 3.2 images, perhaps my sdk does not offer such choice (tested 2.3.3, 3.2 and 4.0.3)
more likely the article refers to an intel based sdk build, that is not the one provided by android developer site.
They may add intel images (yet it's true the emulator needs x86 based images) later and support also intel abi
After a few months passed, the source code for the android 4.0 was released and I find that the x86 virtual machines are faster than any solution I tried which used the Android Emulator.
You can find instructions on using android x86 images here: http://www.android-x86.org/
I followed the instructions here and was able to build a working x86 image. It runs great, much faster than ARM emulation, provided kvm is enabled, which you can by doing "sudo apt-get install kvm" on Ubuntu machines. To check if kvm is already on your machine, do an lsmod | grep kvm.
To answer the other question, Google hasn't released any images with it's SDK yet and this is the thread where someone from Google responded to my question about it.
They plan to release Gingerbread images pretty soon. Which is why there is no drop down option saying "Intel" or x86 in the CPU box of the Android tool (yet).