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Genymotion Android emulator laggy on Macbook


I've been using genymotion for android react-native development but the emulator is so mind numbingly slow compared to the xcode ios emulator.

mbp specs

2.5ghz i7
16gb ram
intel iris plus 640
500gb ssd

genymotion specs

genymotion 3.0.0
google pixel emulator
processors 4
memory size 4096
virtual box 5.2.22

I had virtual box 6.x before but found a stack thread suggesting downgrading to the recommended version but it didn't fix anything.

The emulator works fine and boots relatively quick - all the animations however are very laggy and make it a pain to use

Looking for any recommendations, thanks

edit: I've tried reducing processors to 2 as virtual box was attempting to use 4 (default) but I have a dual core laptop, performance increased slightly - but still far off from the ios emulator


Solution

  • Have you tried using an older version of Android? I heard reports of users finding the latest versions (especially Android 9.0) to be slow on macOS. This should be fixed in Genymotion Desktop 3.1.0.