I'm currently on a Windows 7 box with 1.83GHz processor and 1 GB RAM. I used be able to use all applications with no speed issues. I recently installed Android Plugin in Eclipse Helios and now Eclipse has slowed down badly. Running projects/creating projects/saving code changes all takes 3-4 minutes to happen. When the emulator is launched, it takes a good 10 minutes to be able to use my app. What is causing Eclipse to slow down ?? Wasting a lot of time on this. Please help.
Thanks in advance !
Your system should be running on the edge of the limit when you have Eclipse and the Emulator running. If possible work on a device or check the CPU/RAM usage while working. You should be able to see where the bottleneck is.
If you have Windows XP somewhere, I strongly recommend to switch back to XP...
Usually when your using programming envionments such as eclipse it is very taxing on your computer. The emulator taking up to ten mins to run is not shocking. I also had the same problem but if you have an android device you can use it to test your programs (its almost instant compared to the emulator.)
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I know this is a common question, but I feel like I've tried every single solution out there, so I don't know what to do anymore.
Intel x86 HAXM is installed
Tried Reinstalling the emulator in the SDK Manager
Tried various AVDS with different API levels
Whenever I start my AVD, it will take about 10 minutes for the android sign to pop up, then it will remain for another 10 minutes and then eventually say the process has stopped. Sometimes it will launch and run fine, but it seems the initial startup just takes a brutally long time to the point where it's not worth to test any apps on it.
I don't understand what's wrong, and have been extremely frustrated with this situation over the past 2 days, any help or tips would be appreciated!
Install Genymotion, Every single device/API version they host is relatively quick GenyMotion Android Studio Plugin
visit Why is the Android emulator so slow? How can we speed up the Android emulator?
Try low settings for faster open up Recommended
1. use intel system image
2.Screen size 5.0 or below
3. Ram size from android 5.0 is 1gb and above. if you have 4GB ram.
4.Increase Ram size on your computer or laptop default 4Gb and above for faster run
The emulator's performance has a lot to do with your specs and the specs of the emulator itself. I used to face the same problem, but I upgraded my ram and emulators of all types run pretty fast now. Another alternative is to use your device to test. As far as geny motion is concerned, it turned to be slow too. Its just my personal observations though.
I am using Eclipse new v22.6.2 . My emulator is starting and running very slowly... How to overcomes this problem..using 3.7"WQVGA(240x432:IDPI).
system configuration is 2GB RAM and 64 bit windows 8 and i3 processor
Increase eclipse Memory size since you emulator is using its memory to run. See here to give more memory.
Genymotion is the better option if you want to test your app with emulator.
In my personal opinion it is always best to test app with the real devices.
I recommend using Genymotion (https://www.genymotion.com/). It is free for personal use.
Just had this issue myself (even though I believe to have a nice piece of hardware) and found that it's really faster as it claims to be.
In my notebook, it will get up and running in about 20-30 secs. Hope that will suit your needs.
My PC is core i-5 with 4gb RAM.
whenever i try to run an AVD in eclipse it comes fast, if i want to run an AVD for TAB it take 5 to 10 minutes. Is there any way to make it fast? Also some time it comes with blackscreen says open gl es API problem type something
Also after fast run, i dont close it, i use it same AVD for all run. But it becames slower after every installation or run by my app. so i have to close and restart my AVD, is there any solution for it. Also some time DDMS cant find AVD, while it was running in font.
Anyone face these problem? any tricks?
one another thing, some time app dont run automatically after installation, i have to select app in AVD's APPS
The Android emulator does not make use of multiple cores. Whether you have 1 or 8 cores doesn't matter. However, the speed of a single core does affect the speed of the emulator.
Having a processor with TurboBoost helps considerably, in my experience. Additionally, it is well known that the 3.X and above emulators are extremely slow by nature.
You could also try allocating more RAM to the AVD in it's setup. Reducing the screen size and resolution also helps in speeding up the emulator.
You can refer to this Google Group thread for details on why the emulator is slow, and how to speed it up.
I just created a android AVD which runs on the 3.1 version. After it starts running, it takes a lot of time to move from one activity to another. Is there any way I could speed up this process.
Emulators will always run much slower than the devices. Anyhow, the android emulators now are much faster than before, so make sure you keep your sdk updated (and you obviously have, since you're running 3.1).
Also, I consistently noticed that emulators running in ubuntu 11 are faster than the same emulators in Win 7 (same hardware), so you might want to give ubuntu a try.
Android emulator takes a lot of memory while it's starting up. It's normal. The thing you can do here is using a feature called snapshot. Snapshot will save your time (and probably resources) from the start booting up.
Read this article for more details:
Optimizing Apps for Android 3.0
under the "About Emulator Performance" section.
Hope it helps.
I am building a simple mono android project and deploying to the emulator. Every time I try to run my program it takes at least 30 seconds to a minute to deploy and start the app in the emulator. Further, simple things like single stepping and inspecting variables take several seconds. Is this normal?
Also:
Is it much faster deploying to an actual android device?
Is it much faster using java instead of c#/mono android?
If no, how does one efficiently program on the droid with such slow iterations?
My computer is no powerhouse but it isn't crap either: core 2 duo 2.6ghz, 4gb ram.
I faced with same problem too. But you can solved it in two ways (at least both these ways helped me):
Use MonoDroid on Mac. It deploys to emulator much faster.
Run your application in emulator with same Android version. I tried few different configuration and this one the fastest (as for me): application with android 2.1 and emulator with android version 2.1.1. For me it works pretty fast.
Is it much faster using java instead
of c#/mono android?
I tried java and yes, it deploys (not works) faster.
1) It is faster and more effective to test your program on an android device.
2) It isn't critical.
My hardware is like yours, I develop in Java, and have a wait time similar to yours.
I'm developing android applictions using monodroid and deploy takes ~10s.
Just deploy without close emulator.
I was closing it all times and it take 30sec-1min to deploy.
I did next and it helps a Little in speed:
MonoForAndroid 4.1 API level 16
Add to hardware 'accelerometer'
And set Device size Ram to 512 instead of 1024 (Will not start with accelerometer and ram 1024)
Emulator began work faster, not enough but it is better than nothing
The same issue is without Mono too.
You can run emulator with parameters:
emulator #my_avd -no-boot-anim -qemu -icount auto
where #my_avd -- launch a virtual device named 'my_avd'
The full answer by #Timothy003 is here: Why is the Android emulator so slow? How can we speed up the Android emulator?
Works fine for me, deploying is much faster.