How well does the Android Phone Emulator reflect the performance?

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I've been playing around with OpenGL ES development on Android. OpenGL ES applications seem to run slowly in the Emulator on my development machine. Does this reflect likely performance of actual hardware? I'm concerned about spending too much time developing an application if the graphics performance is going to be sluggish.

Have a look at this it answers your question! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2893273/how-does-android-emulator-performance-compare-to-real-device-performance — audittxl, May 29 '13 at 08:10
The Emulators are getting better every day, now (2017) there are a lot of them, bluestack, GenyMotion, Andy,... to name a few — Reza Hamzehei, Oct 13 '17 at 06:09

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 28 '12 at 18:01

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The emulator is super slow on my Mobile Intel Pentium M 725, 1600 MHz.

I'm assuming the emulator isn't representative of real world performance.

edited Jun 28 '12 at 18:01

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:10

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Emulator is soo slow ,that in some cases an openGL application wouldn't even start when using it. While the actual hardware of android can even be so strong,that you can even play GTA on it.

answered Sep 10 '14 at 16:10

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 06 '18 at 06:33

Configuring VM Acceleration on Windows

Virtual machine acceleration for Windows requires the installation of the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel HAXM). The software requires an Intel CPU with Virtualization Technology (VT) support and one of the following operating systems:

Windows 7 (32/64-bit)
Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
Windows XP (32-bit only)
To install the virtualization driver:

Start the Android SDK Manager, select Extras and then select Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager.
After the download completes, execute
<sdk>/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager/IntelHAXM.exe

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete installation. After installation completes, confirm that the virtualization driver is operating correctly by opening a command prompt window and running the following command:

sc query intelhaxm

You should see a status message including the following information: SERVICE_NAME: intelhaxm

   ...
   STATE              : 4  RUNNING

   ...

To run an x86-based emulator with VM acceleration:

If you are running the emulator from the command line, just specify an x86-based AVD:

emulator -avd <avd_name>

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 03 '20 at 10:45

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After the new update the emulators have become much more reliable but still can't be taken as the way to check the performance of your application. Till now testing the application of real devices are more reliable then emulators.

answered Oct 03 '20 at 10:45

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 15 '16 at 17:41

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With the new emulator of Android Studio 2.0, if you have good computer it runs quite smoothly, at leat for my application!

Check the features!

answered Apr 15 '16 at 17:41

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