On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Dean Cleaver wrote: > Regarding the emulator slowness, my friend said that the emulator is pretty > quick when using Netbeans – so is there some fundamental difference in the > interaction between the simulator and the development environment?
There shouldn't be, as I see the same slowness even without any IDE, and using `adb` directly to install and remove packages. What would be interesting to know is what size emulator he has. As per [0], at about the 40 minute mark, a major reason for the emulator's slowness (in addition to emulating an ARM CPU) is graphics: the entire video pipeline is done in software, in ARM, in the emulator. Shrinking the emulator screen size as much as possible reduces what needs to be rendered, speeding things up. Given that, I would suggest you use the smallest screen size you can for the emulator, e.g. QVGA. - Jon [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq05KqjXTvs _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
