On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Phuc Nguyen Dinh <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to develop Android game for different version of Android > platform, so I must use the Emulator. However, it turned out very slow > even I booted it before installing the application on it relatively. > It's really slow when running applications. > > Hence, I wonder if there exists a minimum hardware requirements for > running the emulator "quickly enough".
There are no formal requirements. The emulator is slower for newer versions of Android and for larger screen sizes. Also, the emulator uses only one core of your CPU, so having multiple cores may not help you much. So, for example, a dual-core 2.5GHz CPU with 4GB of RAM can run the Android 1.5-2.2 emulators just fine, 2.3.3 emulator OK, and 3.0 emulator poorly. A quad-core 2.66GHz CPU with 4GB of RAM has much the same experience. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in London: http://bit.ly/smand1, http://bit.ly/smand2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
