Android Emulator stuck loading screen on M1 mac/ Apple Silicon

Question

I had downloaded Android Studio on my M1 MacBook air but I can't run the emulator and it just gives me an error. I search Android Studio requirements for mac and it says that it requires mac os 10.10 or higher and a minimum of 2 GB disk space and 4GB of ram. Anyone have this issue and how do I solve it?

I try download the arm image android studio it is stuck on the loading screen for the emulator.

Answer 1

As for now (19/11/2020) any of the Virtualization tools do not work with the new Apple M1 macs. So things like docker, emulators etc. We might have to wait a bit until this is fully supported unfortunately.

Answer 2

Good news !

Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈

Apple Silicon Support

There is an arm64 release version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) You can download it here https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

When NDK runs into Unknown host CPU architecture: arm64 you can solve it here

End of beta ! Thank you

Edit on March 2021

I can confirm, this preview of Emulator works properly https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html

In the blog there is a link to a private repo (2021-Jan-04). They moved repo to google and there you find V3 https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases

Since v3 even audio-out works (no audio-in)

Edit on 4th Feb 2021

Now audio in and out works properly https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/issues/10#issuecomment-773532762

Edit March 2021

You can simply use one of them and it's working out of the box

Answer 3

On August release notes you can see on the emulator for Arm host section an entry where they said the support for M1 is in progress. Check the link below: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator#emulator_for_arm64_hosts