On Nov 29, 2011, at 6:14 PM, John Murray wrote:
> I find the emulator excruciatingly slow on an i5 machine with 4gb ram win 7
> Any comments - ideas on speeding it up ?
I run the emulator on a 2.2GHz i7 with 8GB RAM (MBP 15", OS X 10.7 Lion), and
find it to be slow...but not excruciatingly slow (at least once it's done
booting -- enable snapshots [0]). Perhaps I'm just very patient? (I also don't
run the debugger often. I still live in a world of "printf" debugging.)
The single most important thing to do is to make the screen as small as
possible -- QVGA. The emulator doesn't have any form of hardware video
acceleration, so the entire UI is rendered in (arm-emulated!) software, so the
smaller the screen size, the better. You can also use `emulator -scale 0.75` to
scale the screen size, which reportedly also helps.
Unfortunately there's currently no way to provide additional options to the
`emulator` command from the IDE, so if you're doing this you need to run:
emulator -partition-size 512 -scale 0.75 -avd INSERT_AVD_NAME_HERE
- Jon
[0] http://tools.android.com/recent/emulatorsnapshots
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