[ale] How do I run Android in a Virtualbox VM

[Michael Potter]

I do android development and I NEVER use the emulator with the development
tools.
It is just __way__ too slow.

I have not tried this:
http://www.bluestacks.com/

Anyone have experience with that?


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> It doesn't help.  My work machine is a dual Xeon E5-2667 (6 cores each,
> 2.9GHz) with 64 GB of RAM and it still takes about 25 minutes to compile
> and start the emulator.  If the image is saved, it takes about 6 minutes
> to start.  Run speed is also incredibly sluggish, taking about 10-15
> seconds to register a click/tap on the virtual screen.
>
> On 9/30/2013 17:44, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
> > This might be of interest if speed is an issue:
> >
> >
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture
> >
> > As long as you don't mind an Android x86 implementation.
> >
> >
> > -          Jim
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Charles Shapiro <
> hooterpincher at gmail.com<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > The Android emulator works well but needs a lot of machine resources.
>  It runs pretty slowly even on my Core I5 laptop.
> > -- CHS
> >
> > Which would make it a strictly time accurate emulator, wouldn't  it :^) ?
> >
> > -- David
> >
> >
> >
> >
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