Why is Android virtual device too slow?

Question

I just downloaded adt-bundle from the android developper's site to give it a try. problems begun when i hited the "run" button: The Android virtual device or "avd" is horribly slow. I have a pretty decent machine (core i7 & 16go of ram). Aren't they aware of that? i mean it has been several years that people develop for android, how did they manage to do that?

Answer 1

Iphone apps running on the iphone emulator are compiled for the native processor on the mac, and those only simulate the iphone not the actual processor.

The normal android emulator also simulates the processor of the phone which makes it quite slow in comparison.

You could try out the x86 emulator that runs natively on your PC' x86 CPU instead of emulating the CPU on the phone. That a look here.