Appium automation not working correctly on intelx86 based emulator

Question

I have an automation script using appium-python-client which run fine on following configuration of the android emulator:

1. target:Google APIs -API level 19
2. CPU:ARM

but this was too slow. So I switched to new emulator with following configuration

1. target:Google APIs(x86 System Image)-API level 19
2. CPU:Intel Atom (x86)

This is very fast in booting and everything. But my script fails randomly and passes once in a while with following reasons

1. The app screen loaded incompletely (when I minimise and maximise manually it appears correctly, so element could not be found). More Details: screen loads half only.

2. driver.click() passed but effect not visible on Emulator UI (so element could not be found). More details: UI freezes. Can even click manually. When I minimise and maximise then it appears to be responsive.

How can these issues be resolved? I added implicitwait but that didn't help either. The same steps work fine in arm based cpu but not in intel based. I have even installed the hotfix for Intel x86.

Answer 1

After trying many things,I disabled Use Host GPU in my intel x86 emulator and it now works fine.FYI