The latest Android sdk has an x86 emulator, which is supposed to help with performance. How can I create an image for it? When I go to make a new avd I see a dropdown for CPU/ABI but it is set to "ARM" and disabled.
Step #1: Download the Intel Atom x86 System Image - API Level 10 via your SDK Manager.
Step #2: When creating an AVD, choose Intel Atom x86 System Image - API Level 10 as your target.
At the present time, the only official x86 system image is for Android 2.3.3 (a.k.a., API Level 10). There is a third-party build of an Android 4.0.3 system image from the AOSP that you can also install and use, though it is unofficial.
Download and install Intel Atom x86 System image. You can use the latest version if you want.
Now follow instructions at http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm
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I'm using android virtual device for android development.
Each time I want to create an AVD with target Google APIs(Google Inc.) - API level 21, the AVD manager show the message
This AVD may not work unless you install the Google APIs Intel Atom (x86) system image for Android 5.0 (API 21) first.
Before this, I use Android 5.0 - API level 21 target instead.
What can I do to use the Google APIs target
You need to install Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image in your Android SDK first, but Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image for 64 bit system image you created. Remember, you will always need to install Google APIs System Image for every Android SDK API levels. But it excepted for Android 4.4W (API level 20).
What are the minimum requirements I need to create a phone AVD?
Open your SDK and install the following:
SDK Platform
Google APIs (if found on your SDK).
ARM EABI v7a System Image or Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image (choose one based on your System Image that you will use on your AVD's CPU/ABI).
Google APIs ARM EABI v7a System Image (if found on your SDK & if you will use ARM EABI v7a System Image as your AVD's CPU/ABI).
Google APIs (x86 System Image)or Google APIs (ARM System Image) (choose one).
Intel x86 Atom System Image (don't install if you will use ARM EABI v7a System Image).
Create your AVD.
Note:
Choose one of them based on your System Image that you will use. ARM EABI v7a or Intel Atom x86 only.
If you are using Intel Atom x86 System Image, you need to install "Intel HAXM" first (search on Google). This system image supports only if your computer's processor is strong and speed enough. My PC is using Intel Core 2 Duo #2.93 GHz E7500, but it's not supported to use Intel HAXM (that means, I can't use Intel Atom x86 System Image as my AVD's CPU/ABI. So I need to upgrade my PC's CPU).
I get latest version of android api 4.4 (api19) .
When I want to make a new virtual device , I select Android 4.4.2- api level 19 . like the image below ;
It says no target selected and I can't make it .I've maked several other devices with no problem , but could make this one .
this is the image of my SDK :
is there anything missing ? What is the problem ?
thanks you
Possible reason for Error:
Solution:
Step1: Start your AVD
Step2: Download the image and install it
Step3: Restart the Eclipse
You have missed installing the
ARM EABI v7a System Image
or
Intel x86 Atom System image under Android 4.4.2 using sdk manager .
Install and then select one ARM or Intel to create your AVD.
In your AVD ,you have missed to fill the details in CPU/ABI .
It is missing . You should use the SDK manager to install the appropriate image for the SDK version you are using. You simply need to check the ARM image in the SDK manager and click Install.
Name: Nexus7
Target: Android 4.4 (API level 19)
CPU/ ABI: armeabi-v7a
Skin: 800x1280
Does anybody else have this problem with the recently released SDK (V23.0.5 / Windows 7)?
Interestingly I can start Google APIs 21 on Intel Atom x86_64, so I do not see a general issue. Normal Android 5.0 does not work. Emulator comes up, but keeps showing a blank screen.
Updating HAXM to the latest version (Version 1.1.0 preview release 2 at the moment of speaking) should solve all problems related to the Intel Atom images.
if your sdks are up to date just check your cpus patch for avd system if you dont have an intel one you need to download avd patch driver from AMD website
I was following this (http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/setup.html#Install). It asked me to install Google APIs for Android API 17 (or higher) but when i opened SDK Manager, this is how it looked like:
So, my question is: What are these two Google APIs? And, what is the difference between these two?
In the beginning the only Android system images available ran on the ARM instruction set. A system image is used to create different Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) and emulate the different Android devices in common use.
As developer workstations are usually Intel x86 based, the ARM instruction set had to be emulated as well. This resulted in poor performance from the AVDs due mainly to the amount of translation the x86 processor was doing to also emulate the ARM instruction set.
At Android 4.0.3 (API 15) Intel provided their own x86 based Android system image. This could then be used to create AVDs that did not need to do ARM translation. Combined with the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) the x86 AVMs were up to 10 times faster than the equivalent ARM emulators.
Support for Google specific Android APIs like the Android Google maps API, are not provided with the standard Android system images. They need to be installed separately using the Android SDK Manager. To use these APIs with an x86 system image you need to also install the Google APIs (x86 System Image) for the same API level.
Yesterday I've updated Android SDK to rev 18, but there's only ARM EABI v7a system image for API level 14 & 15, while in this tutorial they say I could use x86-based system image for better & smoother performance of emulator. I've check in sdk-folder\tool\ and "emulator-86.exe" also exists, but no x86 AVD created to run with this. I also install HAXM and it works fine in my machine. In GUI AVD creation, the CPU/ABI dropdown box also be disabled for every API level.
So where I could find and use x86 based system image for my Android SDK? Any help is appreciated. Thanks
You can also download images for use with HAXM and the emulator direct from Intel's website. The current one at this link is API 19 (4.4).
15 is the current top API level. Only the SDK Tools and the plugin have a revision level of 18. In Windows systems you will find your AVDs below: \users\you\.android\avd