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Why Android Studio emulator is extremely slow?


I'm using Android Studio version 3.2 and I have 12GB ram and double graphic cards(NVIDIA and INTEL).

I already installed HAXM and also forces emulator.exe and qemu-system-x86_64.exe to work with NVIDIA.

But still the emulator is extremely slow


Solution

  • My Nexus 5X API 24 and 25 Emulators works well but Nexus 5X API 26 and above are very slow, I check memory and CPU costs in Android Profiler it shows much higher than others, even simulators have the same density.

    I think currently we often choose latest Emulators (from API 26 - Android 8.0 and above) ONLY for testing code that relates to OS features changes, for stable and performance testing, we should choose Emulators equal or below API 25 - Android 7.1.
    I reported this problem to Google, hope they will make some enhancements soon.