I've tried 3 virtual devices and when I run any of them a white screen is opened without anything inside .
and i think that the VirualBox problem is the reason
here are my computer properties
I've already answered similar issue: Ubuntu Linux 32bit - not a Genymotion virtual device
Genymotion already does not support 32-bit computers, so I suppose that you're running older version or you're trying to run 64-bit version on 32-bit.
With 2GB RAM and 32-bit machine I would have forgotten about any emulator - Genymotion, Android SDK emulator and others.
Look, building small sample application in Android Studio may freeze your computer as it takes more than 1GB RAM and you want to run also an emulator which takes also more then 1GB RAM and I suppose also web browser (Chrome) and other software.
If you really need to work on this pretty weak computer, I suggest you to buy a low-end Android devices and forget about emulator.
It would be good also changing Windows operational system, which seems to me a bit heavy to lite Linux operational system like Lubuntu or Elementary OS.
Hope it will help
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I recently upgrade to the latest android studio, although i had not use it in a long time. My code build up and sync successful but I get the error below each time I tried to the app in an emulator. pls note, I use Window 10 on AMD based system
Emulator: emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration
I had installed and enable "Intel HAXM". I have browsed through a few similar question but none provides a solution.
Please not this question is a different scenario to what you have the question Emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration:
No information about Intel HAXM status nor CPU acceleration status
The version of Android Studio is way different
possible difference in the way SDK Manager was back in 2015 and now
The answer you posted is just a workaround.
As a i solution (i have the same AMD platform - 2700X my cpu), you need to enable from BIOS - your virtualisation technology (i have a Aorus motherboard and its called SMT), and then from the OS - Turn Windows Features ON or OFF - install
After this option is installed, you should be able to run the AVD with proper emulation. I already uninstalled HAXM and had no issues without it.
Also, i did not install any Hyper-V
PS:
As of 26 Oct 2019, Google added support for AMD CPU as per their blog: https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2019/10/android-emulator-hypervisor-driver-for.html
You need to make sure you disable the previous settings provided by me up above, and follow their guide.
I found the answer by Alex8752 on the post Android Studio - How Can I Make an AVD With ARM Instead of HAXM? as guideline to resolve the above issue.
Basically since I use AMD system, I downloaded and installed arm* image from "Other Image" within System Image (I will recommend armeabi-v7a for x86-64 based systems). Thanks to everyone.
Suppose I wanted to build a PC application but instead of that I'd make an Android app which does not access mobile only APIs. Can I run something like that on my PC? Do that by like running dalvik vm on a pc and then running the app in that?
Is there another way to run an app on PC apart from using an emulator?
No there is no direct way of doing that. The only ways of doing it are by using an emulator like for example the one included in the Android SDK (Android Studio) or Bluestacks.
EDIT: But there is no way to run android apps without an emulator unless you want to write the dalvik vm for every cpu architecture yourself!
EDIT2: Quoting #XavierFalempin from the comments section:
There was also ARC welder on chrome to run some android apps. developer.chrome.com/apps/getstarted_arc
On Linux yes: https://anbox.io/
I checked win,mac support - there is no support and there is not plans for that.
But running Ubuntu in VirtualBox is not a problem :)
In order to run android apps on pc without any emulator you will need to install any Android based OS on your PC which will remove the emulation part and just run the apps directly on the PC and as a result you will get better performance. I would suggest you to try Prime OS as the development for this OS is going pretty well and you can post your query on their forums in order to get your issues resolved asap. They have 3 separate variants for old, newer and newest chipsets which makes it compatible with most of the systems. You can download it from here : https://www.primeos.in/download
Is there anyway to run Android virtual devices through Eclipse while operating with AMD processor? I had Genymotion for a while and despite it worked, it was too much of a kerfuffle to dabble with it.
For AMD processor, create a new Virtual Device and while selecting the system Image select the ABI as armeabi instead of the default x86 one.
You don't need an Intel processor to run the emulator, it's just so much faster with the HAXM technology which obviously is not available to you. I recommend buying a cheap Android device for testing, as none of the emulations provided with the ADK are particularly fast.
With developer mode enabled on your Android device, you'll find the debugging and all other useful features that Eclipse provides work very well (but note that developer features are now quite hidden: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/android-4-2-developer-mode-is-a-tricky-thing-heres-how-its-done/ ).
Use Genymotion insted of default one. It is way faster than the default one. And yaa the emulator is compatible with both Intel and AMD. Genymotion just uses Virtualbox to run Android in VM.
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I have this assignment to run a "hello world" Android app.
The problem is the Android app emulator is stuck on the Android loading screen.
I have searched this problem. They said that Android development needs a faster computer to execute apps neatly.
Is there a way to run it on a netbook?
For example, editing the RAM settings and/or SD card settings so that it can run faster?
Realistically I think your best bet is to try and find a used android phone. You can get them VERY cheaply on Amazon or at other retailers.
If you really can't you can try to muck around with the emulator, but even when it's at it's best the Emulator is a miserable way to do development. You can barely get it running as it is - imagine what happens if you do figure some hacky way to get it running and you try to do anything substantial. It will be a nightmare.
I would also look into upgrading your computer if you are really going to do dev work. A machine that can't run the emulator is a machine that probably can't do most of what you're going to be needing to do. Have you tried your schools computer lab?
Also - as a commentor has stated this question is likely off topic for stack overflow.
Edit: Per Chris Strattons Comment:
You might try disabling various things in your IDE (I'm assuming you're using eclipse) - for example Syntax checking. I would also recommened ensuring that you don't have a web browser, antivirus or other software running in the background which might eat up your computing power. If you're going to run the emulator I would strongly recommend making it the ONLY thing you run.
You may want to look into building and running the application from the command line to avoid the overhead of running and IDE at all:
Please see:
Building from the command line:
http://developer.android.com/tools/building/building-cmdline.html
Running the emulator from the command line:
How do I launch the Android emulator from the command line?
Additionally - is your netbook running Windows or Linux? Windows boxes tend to have higher overhead than Linux machines, so you might try installing a lightweight Linux distro (mint perhaps) and seeing if that helps.
If the problem is getting the emulator to start or your emulator is just too slow, you should look into HAXM:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager
Pretty much all of my emulators are running the x86 image with HAXM for acceleration, and my dev machine has 16GB of RAM. Using ARM images for your emulators is just too slow, especially for your netbook.
Yes, if you are serious about Android Dev (or any Dev really) you need to get something better than a netbook, but for now, see if a little hardware acceleration will do in a pinch.
I have a nice PC Desktop that I run all my development applications, Visual Studio, SQL Server instance running, Eclipse, Spring Eclipse etc... everything is fairly fast.
But when I run a simple, little, empty android hello world app, it takes literally 3 or more minutes for the Android get started!!! I don't believe I am the only one experiencing that? I don't want to run in the device every single time... usually it is handy run in the emulator just like I do with XCode to IPhone simulator...
any experience with that? solution tips?
thanks
You can use android-x86 (helpful post). x86 port works faster than emulator, but I recommend use a real device to avoid emulator-specific problems.
The Android emulators, especially the older ones, are notoriously slow. This is because they not only have to run an OS in an OS, but they must also emulate an ARM processor Architecture, on a x86 or x64 processor. This makes them rather slow.
However, you do get Intel images for ICS, which are built for x86 and run faster. You could also try using the older emulators. They got progressively slower upto honeycomb. You could also try increasing the emulator RAM and get a minor speed boost.
Other than that, you could leave the emulator running once started, as then it's much faster to test your apps, since you don't need to start it up everytime.
However, I would personally recommend testing on a device, as you will never get the same quality and accuracy in debugging on an emulator.
There is an Android emulator called Bluestacks that you can use for apps as well. It is less for development and more for playing Android games on your PC, but if you don't mind testing your app in a non-standard launcher environment then it is super fast.
You can even use it for debugging and access DDMS from Eclipse as well by following these steps:
Open Bluestacks
In your 'platform-tools' folder in command prompt, type "adb connect 127.0.0.1"
Try to run your app or debug from Eclipse and you should see a new device listed for Bluestacks.
It doesn't have the same type of hardware/environment emulation that the normal emulator does, so it will not be appropriate for testing all apps, but I use it whenever I can because the normal emulator is such a headache.
So far, there is no solution for that...I have to buy a nexus to run my apps to make the development viable