Honeycomb Android Emulator is Slow Problem
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by big big
The Honeycomb SDK preview, permitting everybody to take an appearance and play around with Honeycomb utilizing the Android emulator, premiered yesterday, but as we got past the initial excitement, we discovered that the emulator itself was dog slow and pretty significantly unusable. Actually, it had been so frustrating to make use of it which i desired to punch walls and rip out my hair after 5 minutes by using it. And I’m not even going to talk about orientation issues - the way the Android team were able to ship the SDK with orientation broken automatically (there is a fix for it within the Settings > Display) is beyond me and at night scope of this write-up. We’re only some of the ones who noticed - Engadget’s own hands-on says \”Honeycomb’s is extremely slow - nearly to begin uselessness in this instance.\” Honeycomb Android Emulator is Slow Problem
So, are we able to anticipate much better performance using this clunker soon? After looking around, I found this promising tidbit within the SDK Tools r9 release notes:
Recognized difficulties with emulator performance: Simply because the Android emulator must simulate the ARM instruction set architecture on your computer, emulator performance is slow. We’re working challenging to resolve the performance problems and it will improve in future releases.
Furthermore, to confirm the above mentioned, I’ve posted a question to StackOverflow, following Reto Meier’s suggestion. His response:
The short response is \”yes\”. The Honeycomb emulator performance will be improved later on release of the development tools.
For right now, you need to start by increasing the amount of device RAM utilized by the emulator. The default is 256Mb but 1Gb is probably much more reasonable.
Additionally, there has been reports that by decreasing the resolution from the emulator, you will gain a significant significant performance boost.
At this point, I believe we're able to as well do both of the above and hope Google is taking the concern seriously (when they’re not busy investing in Easter eggs).
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