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Man, I'm getting frustrated.

I just re-installed the Android ADT bundle because my AVD speeds were horrible, we're talking 2-3 minutes to load an AVD with a new APK, crazy. After the re-install, I found HAXM.

Installing HAXM has made a HUGE difference, however, I'm finding that the build, upload and install of my app through Eclipse and the AVD is still taking 1 minute! This is terribly frustrating as I like to make subtle changes, test, and then continue. Imagine a minute wait between each build, ugh...

Anyway, is this normal? If so, how do you cope with it, are there any tricks as far as .ini settings etc? I really appreciate it, I'd love to have sub 20 second load times, I think that is reasonable as my actual phone loads in less than 5 seconds.

Please let me know, thanks!

EDIT: Ok, it appears that this is a disk utilization issue! Sometimes, when the emulator is installing the APK disk read/write hits 100% capacity, it's like the emulator is writing or reading out of control, yet only 0.1 mb/s is being written... Very strange..

AutoM8R
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  • SOLVED - If you find this is your problem, increase your HAXM RAM usage to 3 GB (do this through re-installing HAXM), then, increase all of your AVD's RAM to 1024 with 64 VMHeap. Installations and runs of the debugger are instant, I can't believe it!!! – AutoM8R Jan 31 '13 at 08:13
  • UPDATE - Was solved, until a reboot. Now, I have 53 second load times on my APK installs from Eclipse to the AVD, crazy slow. I checked the HAXM RAM setting and it HAD reverted back to 2 GB, I increased it back to 3 GB, however, it took a reboot before the 1 second install times came back, what the heck?! – AutoM8R Jan 31 '13 at 16:57
  • Hi, I installed HAXM in hopes that it would help with AVD performance, but other than launching the AVD a bit quicker, the UI still is way too slow to test any real applications. Is HAXM just to help launch the AVD or should it improve AVD responsiveness as well? – Jason Feb 18 '14 at 03:19
  • @Shijima it should do both. It should make the AVD load almost instantly, and the AVD should feel pretty close to Android speeds. I used to have a great experience with HAXM before Windows 8... – AutoM8R Feb 18 '14 at 03:25

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You can use genymotion emulator. It works very fast compared to any emulator offered by eclipse or android studio. You can download it for free.

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  • Geny is OK. I have a paid license, it crashes A LOT. – AutoM8R Nov 25 '15 at 01:21
  • Android Studio 2.0 is in Beta stage. It will roll out soon. It appears, they have made it very fast, the compiler and emulator both. – Cisco Nov 26 '15 at 06:30