Speed up Android devices on Linux by an order of magnitude

published Jul 02, 2013 10:35 by admin ( last modified Sep 25, 2013 11:59 )

When installing the Android development tools from Google, I read that hardware acceleration for the Android Virtual Devices (the Virtual phones on screen that you can test your software on) would not be avilable for Linux.

However Intel says it is available. I have tested it and I now fully believe their claims that you can speed up your testing device by a factor of five or ten! Follow the link below to check how to do it.

It's basically:

sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin ubuntu-vm-builder bridge-util

If you are an Android* developer who is unhappy with the performance of the Android emulator, then this document is for you. Over and over again, we have heard from many Android developers that the emulator is slow and painful to work with, but this should not be the case!