How can I speed up deployment to the android emulator?

Question

It takes several minutes each time I try to deploy an app for debugging on the emulator. I have installed HAX and that made the start of each instance and the execution much faster. I haven't optimized my computer for running the emulator in any other way. And deployment is still painfully slow.

Is there any measures I should take to speed it up? Current OS are Win8 and Ubuntu 13.4

And I wan't to stress that the question is about speeding up deployment on an allready running instance of the emulator. The startup of the emulator itself sometimes is faster than the actual deployment of the app.

I have consulted a few threads on speeding up the execution of the app and startup of the emulator but nothing specifically concerns the deployment.

Answer 1

Not sure if that's an emulator issue, or just your apk is too heavy, but I'd recommend trying Genymotion just in case, generally is fast as hell compared with the default one.