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I've been using genymotion for android react-native development but the emulator is so mind numbingly slow compared to the xcode ios emulator.
mbp specs
2.5ghz i7
16gb ram
intel iris plus 640
500gb ssd
genymotion specs
genymotion 3.0.0
google pixel emulator
processors 4
memory size 4096
virtual box 5.2.22
I had virtual box 6.x before but found a stack thread suggesting downgrading to the recommended version but it didn't fix anything.
The emulator works fine and boots relatively quick - all the animations however are very laggy and make it a pain to use
Looking for any recommendations, thanks
edit: I've tried reducing processors to 2 as virtual box was attempting to use 4 (default) but I have a dual core laptop, performance increased slightly - but still far off from the ios emulator
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Genymotion is based on virtualization. Make sure your CPU virtualization technology feature (Intel VT-x or AMD-V) is enabled in your computer motherboard BIOS. Another option might be to increase the RAM allotted to your Genymotion device.
Genymotion Desktop has been tested on the following macOS versions: macOS 11 (Big Sur) macOS 10.15 (Catalina) macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
Genymotion is an Android Emulator that is faster than the Android Studio Emulator. Genymotion emulator offers a wide range of virtual devices for development, test, and demonstration purpose. It has a very simple user interface and one can directly use it from Android Studio by installing its plugin only once.
Android studio has a default emulator, the AVD. Genymotion is faster than avd, and also better to use.
Have you tried using an older version of Android? I heard reports of users finding the latest versions (especially Android 9.0) to be slow on macOS. This should be fixed in Genymotion Desktop 3.1.0.
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