Good day everyone. I am want to know if i can install genymotion on my netbook using intel atom processor # 1.66GHz and 1GB RAM. I intend to use the genymotion emulator with eclipse during development.
https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/doc/. Check this link. I highly doubt it would be a smooth process for you, if you run genymotion on your machine
I have a netbook With 2*1,3Ghz CPU and 4GB RAM. Genymotion runs fine on this machine. It's much slower than on my wokplace computer but its good enough to debug my applications.
But 1GB memory is surely not enough. I assume you need about 1GB for the emulator and additional 1-2 GB for the development tools.
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Please let me know the recommend requirement to run the eclipse and Android emulator simantaniously?
I've a laptop powered by Intel i3 processor 1.7 GHz clock speed, 4 GB RAM and windows 10, Bitdefender antivirus installed but I'm not able to work on these tools smoothly. But on desktop powered by 2.8GHz dual core 3GB ram it works smoothly.
The Android emulator is only showing Android logo at very slowly and it doesn't starts up for about 10 minutes on idle.
Please list down all the recommended requirement which are required to run eclipse and Android emulator simantaniously and smoothly on laptop.
I suggest switching to Android Studio. Support for ADT has ended. Moreover, make sure that you have updated Android SDK. There were improvements in emulators and system images in the last years, which made them faster. You can also switch to Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) because then you can use hardware acceleration for emulators. I'm not sure if it's working on MS Windows. If this won't help, you can try Genymotion.
Do you use Intel HAXM https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager and x86 image in AVD to improve the performance?
In any case, imho to run smootly AVD on a notebook you should have an i7 ULV 2c/4t (i7 4500U or better) and 8gb of RAM.
For development purpose do not use eclipse now, use Android Studio because Google has stopped there support to eclipse. In android studio you can use Genymotion it is faster then eclipse's android emulator.
And about your question the ADT emulator is very slow you have to wait a log time to its get started.Your laptop's configuration is enough. you can use Bluestack http://www.bluestacks.com/ or simply connect your android device via usb and run it on directoly using ADB.
I have an older AMD processor with integrated graphics (AMD Athlon II x4 640) and the android emulator runs really slow. The integrated graphics don't work with the "Use Host GPU" option and I can't use the faster Intel system images because I have an AMD processor.
I have heard Genymotion is faster but I can't use it since my integrated graphics don't support OpenGl 2.0+.
What would be the best upgrade: getting a graphics card or getting a new computer with an Intel processor?
A physical mobile phone connected via USB is faster than the emulator running on a amd rig. My current budget forces me to test this way but hey there mobile apps might as well do some testing when I'm out and about.
I apologize in advance for recommending a purchase of a product which is not allowed but you can get a decent inexpensive no contract phone in the US a lot cheaper than a new intel rig.
You can do following steps to speed up Android Emulator
1)Install HAXM in your SDK manager>Extras>HAXM.
2)Create Lower RAM Size Emulator if you have less RAM in your computer.
3)Close Other Unnecessary Process from TaskManager while you are running Emulator.
4)Use less Screen density(ldpi,mdpi) at the start.
5)Increase RAM of Your Computer Emulator will speed up.
6)Update your sdk with latest update
I have an old laptop running Windows Vista with a 2.6 Ghz Intel Celeron and 2 gigs of RAM. I was considering installing Lubuntu or another lightweight Linux distro on it to use for travel. Would this be able to run the Android SDK/Eclipse reasonably well? All other threads I could find were about running the emulator-I will be running the apps on my Galaxy S4 or Nexus 7, so I just need Eclipse to run.
Thanks in advance.
It should be able to run it, but probably not very fast. The Celeron line of processors had a small internal cache and were only single core. Eclipse is a big piece of software which uses a lot of RAM and can be disk intensive as well. I've got an older Core2 Duo 2GHz with 4GB of RAM and Eclipse/ADT can be pretty sluggish at times if I have to use that machine. Good luck!
My Android emulator runs painfully slow on my PC so I was thinking about installing Ubuntu on a virtual machine and running the AVD there. Do you think it would be faster if I did so?
you have two solution.
one, you install AndroVM on VirtualBox.
AndroVM
this way is very faster, but bit difficult to setup and controll.
other way is create AVD which is made in Intel x86.
Configuring the x86 Emulator
this way is very fast too.and setup and controll is very easy compare to general emulator.
but this way require CPU which support Intel VT / AMD-V
both way is good,please choose you like :)
I would put my money on Linux - as it has less of a footprint OS wise.
On the other hand, Windows is by far more used, so if they've developed it and put time into the one that is used the most, it could be Windows.
As a side note: there are several new android emulators that run on windows, some I've seen actually interface with the hardware (this avoids a layer of abstraction).
If your concerned with speed, you will get better performance with less programs running as the emulator is process intensive. (My i7, 8gb ram, is usable for developing - though nothing beats a device... Or nexus for that matter)
To connect to your computer: Debugging on my phone (Eclipse, Android)
My current laptop has Intel Core2 Duo P9500 #2.53GHz with 4GB memory. Running android emulator on Eclipse is quite a pain (very very slow). Any recommended/minimum system requirement for android developers out there?
Right, it does not have a stand-alone graphics card, it has embeded Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GM45.
A faster processor and hard-drive should help.
Honeycomb will run slow on any computer. But, no matter what you are using, shrinking the resolution of the Emulator/AVD a bit can help.