Android Studio/Emulator on macOS with ARM CPU M1

Question

I started Android Studio 4.1 in macOS Big Sure 11.0.1 with new ARM cpu M1

After installing Rosetta: Yes, it builds !

But the Emulator has problems, it shows me CPU does not support VT-x

Even ARM images have this issue

I used the most recent, a very old api25 (Google has to do here something) but it's increadible slow

How to make the Emulator work and fast ?

Answer 1

Good news !

Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈

Apple Silicon Support

Now 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#downloads

Use a arm64-v8a image !

• Tools -> SDK Manager
• Install Android 11 (R) or 12.0 (S) and click Apply
• Tools -> AVD Manager -> click Create Virtual Device
• Choose any device that has the Play button and click Next
• Choose an arm64-v8a on "Other Images" tab

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

• kapt doesn't work Solved https://stackoverflow.com/a/68285501/1079990

End of beta ! Thank you

Edit on May 2021 🎉 🌈

Apple Silicon Support

There is an arm64 version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Canary 15 ... RC01 You can download it here https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

Edit on 4th Feb 2021

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

Answer 2

This fixed my issue

Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools (tab) -> Deselect 'Android Emulator' -> OK

Now, when you try to run your app, or launch device from AVD Manager, it will give the 'Install Emulator' error -> Click Ok. This will automatically download the correct version.