Why emulator is very slow in Android Studio?

Question

I just setup Android Studio on my PC, which is new launch to develop Android application.

My problem is that, when I try to run my small app in emulator, it take to much time to launch and after then emulator is working slow too.

AVD settings

AVD Name: Glaxy
Device: Glaxy Nexus (4.65", 720x 1280: xhdpi)
Target: Android 4.2.2 - API Level 17
Memory Option: Ram 500, VM Heap 64
Internal Storage: 200MiB

I have good window pc: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93Ghz and Ram is 3gb

I am new in Android development and java.

Answer 1

The Best Solution is to use Android Emulator with Intel Virtualization Technology.

Now if your system have a Processor that have a feature called as Intel Virtualization Technology, then Intel X86 images will be huge benefit for you. because it supports Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM).

To check that your processor support HAXM or not : Click Here

You need to manually install the Intel HAXM in your system. Follow these steps for that.

• First of all go to - adt -> extras -> intel -> Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager
• Make sure that Intel Virtualization is enabled from BIOS Settings.
• Now install Intel HAXM in your system and select amount of memory(i prefer to set it as default value).
• After installation create new Android Virtual Device (AVD) which should have a Target of API Level xx
• Now set the CPU/ABI as Intel Atom(x86).
• If you are on Windows then do not set RAM value more than 768 MB while setting up an emulator.
• Run the emulator. It will be blazing fast then ordinary one.

Hope it will be helpful for you. :) Thanks.

Answer 2

Just edit the AVD settings as below,

Enable snapshot options and please use INTEL HAXM software for speedup.just visit https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-intel-haxm and download...