If someone that works for Google could actually comment, that would be great. Students are not having trouble with the iOS simulator running on the Mac. The only android solution is to buy a real phone, which limits testing to a single Android version and configuration. Right now I have no options other than to tell students that the Android emulator doesn't work. If there were a recommendation for platform, java version, memory, etc., I would follow it. Google needs to acknowledge the issue and provide guidance about what development environments actually work. AVD Settings: Device RAM size 1024, Snapshot support enabled both in AVD and startup.Emulator Start with no animation - did not help.Without which the Android Emulator will run very slowly. The very first function of BIOS runs when the PC starts and bios check the entire. Processor: Intel Celeron M CPU 520 1.60 GHz Supported macOS is 10.12, 10.13 & 10.14 Only 64 bit OS is supported. This Playstation 2 emulator is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.Here are details to add to the data around this issue. While my machine is a little dated, I have no trouble running Vista, Office, PowerStudio, etc. The web apps are testing by running the emulator standalone and opening the Browser. I am teaching mobile web app development using jQTouch. Please note that I am not trying to tie the emulator to Eclipse. Question: Has anyone that has experienced extreme slowness (more than 15 minutes to launch) actually resolved this issue so that startup is less than a couple of minutes? If so, what did you do? The lack of a coherent response to the question is unacceptable (this is not the Community's fault). I see threads related to the issue going back over a year. My experience with the Android emulator is that it is so slow that it is unusable.

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