How to speed up Android Emulation?

Question

I\'m trying to get started with Android development.

I\'m using eclipse on Linux and using a Pentium IV @3.2Gh with 1GB of ram. I\'ve just followed the \"hello and

Answer 1

In addition to the other answers: Run the emulator (emulator -avd <avd_name> [-<option> [<value>]] ... [-<qemu args>]) with the option -no-boot-anim. This disables the boot animation during emulator startup.

Answer 2

If you have a virtual machine open when you start your program, it should automatically select it as the VM to install and rerun the application.

Answer 3

Bumping the amount of ram on a honeycomb AVD from 256M to 1GM resulted in huge speedup. It was taking ~1 minute to $ adb install -r foo.apk; now it take 4 seconds. I think the emulator was going into swap!

Answer 4

As long as you have a compatible AVD running, it shouldn't try to create a new emulator instance. When you want to re-deploy your app to the emulator, kill the existing one from the Debug perspective, and hit the debug button on the menu bar. It should install and launch the app in the existing instance.