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I'm using Android Studio version 3.2 and I have 12GB ram and double graphic cards(NVIDIA and INTEL).
I already installed HAXM and also forces emulator.exe and qemu-system-x86_64.exe to work with NVIDIA.
But still the emulator is extremely slow
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According to Android Studio's official system requirements, it takes at minimum 3 GB RAM to run smoothly. Honestly, its a lot and I believe that is the biggest cause of being it too slow all the time. The android developers are always complaining about the speed of Android Studio and how its slow ALL THE TIME.
However, the heap size should not be less than 12 MB. o Depending on your computer specs, the recommended ram size is in the range between 512 MB – 1024 MB. Although you can give more ram to the emulator but an actual android device would normally have 512 MB – 1024 MB for ram only.
If you are looking for the lightest Android emulator, the Droid4x is your best choice. It can run even on 1GB RAM. It supports all windows up to 7, so it may be a little old. But it sure can do the job.
My Nexus 5X API 24 and 25 Emulators works well but Nexus 5X API 26 and above are very slow, I check memory and CPU costs in Android Profiler it shows much higher than others, even simulators have the same density.
I think currently we often choose latest Emulators (from API 26 - Android 8.0 and above) ONLY for testing code that relates to OS features changes, for stable and performance testing, we should choose Emulators equal or below API 25 - Android 7.1.
I reported this problem to Google, hope they will make some enhancements soon.
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Try this:
Go to the emulator settings and try to select different values for OpenGL ES Renderer:
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