Android emulator uses 100% cpu even if nothing i running on it ?

Question

I have a celeron processor :/ and android emulator on eclipse uses 100% of cpu and hangs everything unless I kill it . I was just trying a hello android program from a book

Answer 1

The Android emulator is emulating an ARM CPU without hardware acceleration which can be pretty slow even on a core2duo for example.

You can try to reduce the screen resolution of the virtual device which should result in a small performance increase.