if it is enabled, you need to disable it. The Hyper-V is installed, when you install the Windows OS. Intel’s HAXM (Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) is used by the Android Emulator.Ī Windows CPU can support only one virtualization technology at a time. Some of the virtualization technologies used in windows are Operating system virtualization is the technique, where software is used to run many operating systems in the hardware at the same time. The Android emulator uses the Operating system Virtualization technologies to mimic the real device on your PC. You can test your app on various types of devices simultaneously before releasing it to the Production. With Android Emulator you can create a virtual device of any configuration, size, type. Also, the devices with the new features keep coming out at regular intervals.

This is something which is not possible if you are using the real device. You can use the real device to run and test your Android application, which is actually a better and faster way to test your appīut, you need a device of every size, type (like the tablet, phone, wear, tv), etc and with the various configuration like RAM, API Version, Network supported, etc. You need to specify which AVD to use to the Android Emulator and emulator mimics the device. The emulator allows us to develop and test Android applications without using a real device. It then simulates the device on your computer. The Android emulator is a program that takes the configuration from the Android Virtual Device (AVD). We have an article on how to Install Android Studio, which you can refer to. How to Install AVD Manager?ĪVD Manager is installed, when you install Android Studio. You can access the AVD Manager from the Android Studio from the menu Tools -> AVD Manager ( or Tools -> Android -> AVD Manager in the older version of the studio). We can create as many as AVD’s and configure them by specifying the hardware and software parameters.

The AVD Manager is a GUI interface provided by Android Studio to create and manage Android Virtual Devices.

System Requirement to run Android Emulator.

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