Installing Intel x86 Atom System Images offline (manually) for Android

Question

I want to install the Intel x86 Atom System Image because my emulator speed is too slow. Each time I tried to install it from the Android sdk manager I failed getting this message:-

Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/x86/addon-x86.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/x86/addon-x86.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-wear/android-wear-sys-img.xml

Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-wear/android-wear-sys-img.xml

Done loading packages.

Preparing to install archives

Downloading Intel x86 Atom System Image, Android API 17, revision 1

  Resuming Intel x86 Atom System Image, Android API 17, revision 1 download at 1540 (0%)

Download finished with wrong checksum. Expected ddb3313e8dcd07926003f7b828eafea1115ea35b, got 2789383f5a408e854f56ae282de281260fa2b46d.
Done. 

Nothing was installed.

I went to the Intel site and downloaded it manually and then followed the instructions to install it. But when I create a new AVD I don't see the Intel atom option in the CPU/ABI menu.

Does anyone know what the problem is?

Answer 1

If you are unable to install Intel x86 System images using Android SDK, then you can always download them directly from the Intel website and install it manually,

Intel has provided easy-to-follow instructions to download and install Intel System images for Android manually,

here is one tutorial on installing Intel® Atom™ x86 Image for Android* 4.4 KitKat Manually

The above instructions would help you to install System Image for Android 4.4 kitkat, but Intel has also provided direct links for all other Android versions on its own website,

for your convenience, here are the direct links for x86 System Images from Intel website,

Android x86 System Images

• Android 4.4 (KitKat) ›
• Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) ›
• Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) ›
• Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) ›
• Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) ›
• Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) ›

furthermore, You may visit Intel Android Tools page if new images are added in future.