Android Emulator so slow [duplicate]

Question

I know there has been quite a few posts on this but all the solutions given in these posts have not worked.

I made a Android 3.2 emulator and am trying to run a hello world application. I set the device ram size to 1024(any bigger and the emulator will crash and give this error)

Failed to allocate memory: 8
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I am on windows 7 64bit edition. As I said I am trying to run a hello world application that. I tried to use the snapshot feature to make it load faster but the emulator sits on the "android" logo page for like 5 minutes.

Even once the emulator loads up and I try to click around on backbuttons and other default applications on the emulator it is like a slideshow.

Answer 1

unless you really need some of the new functionalities of 3.2 I would recommend you develop on an earlier sdk... I personally use 1.6 and 2.1 for most of my apps and the difference in load time and general emulator speed is enormous.

EDIT: especially considering you are only writing helloWorld at this present

Answer 2

I had this exact problem. I thought it was my hardware but I got the latest emulator and it still sometimes crashes but by taking a snapshot I've got my loading times down from 10 minutes to 1 minute.

I'd verify those times, and give you my version numbers but I run it off of external storage and it seems I've since uninstalled Java :(

It was working with the last release about 6 months ago. The rush to update Android SDK stopped about that time too, as I recall.