Some tips if you still want to try to use the default emulator:ġ) Reduce screen size. When running the emulator, I could add text input to EditText if physical keyboard language was not english! Solution no.

Its super fast too, but its very heavy! Genymotion is much lighter!Įdit2: some weird error I faced using this emulator.

Run your app in genymotion emulator! Note: it will appear as “USB Device” and NOT as emulator!.

Select in IntelliJ/Android Studio the genymotion icon, and the select the path of the Application.

Download from genymotion’s cloud an image (eg nexus7 w/o gapps) Install the plugin (Preferences/Plugins/Install from disc)

Download the IntelliJ Idea/Android studio plugin, and the Application (works for Linux/Mac/Windows).

Its very fast, and way lighter than the other simulators*! You can still build/install your app from Eclipse as normal using ADT/abd

The bounty is still open incase anyone comes up with something better.īut so far, the only solution I’ve found for testing android on Mac OSX is to use a VM. It considerably accelerates the development on Android, it is just a shame that it doesn’t works like this out of the box. The VM will boot up in just a few seconds anyway. When you create a new AVD to use this latest system image and enable the GPU support on it (at the moment the snapshot support are not compatible with GPU but it still worths it. Now it is possible to run the emulator at native speeds on a Mac but there is some work to do by hand.įirst you need the latest SDK Tools rev.19+ and Platform tools rev.11+, the Android x86 Atom System Image for 4.0.3 to 4.4 and the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAX) all this from the Android SDK Manager.Īfter this you need to install HAX, unfortunately the SDK Manager downloads an outdated version.

On the latest version of the Android SDK there is support for x86 and native execution. I’m using a Macbook Pro 2010 on Mac OS X Lion. I placed in more ‘RAM’ into the virtual device but nothing changes. First of all, yes I know there’s a lot of topics similar to this issue, I did use the search function on stack overflow.īut most of the issue that were brought up seems to about long boot times.įor me, the emulator is so slow, simply sliding from one home screen to another is like watching a slideshow.

Android emulator mac os 10.11.