It will help them with speed improvements in loading emulator snapshots. The update has something for the developers using the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM). Initially, the support for these technologies was available in the v27.3.8 Android Emulator canary release. Google has released a new set of preview features on the stable channel for getting related feedback from the developers. The best part of it is, most of the Android developer can take advantage of all the speed improvements because of the Microsoft’s contribution of a new Microsoft Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX) API Moreover, the developer who use Hyper-V to run your local app backend can now also coexist with other Hyper-V-backed applications on Windows 10. The update will make it more accessible to the Android developers that were previously limited to software emulation, but can now have hardware accelerated performance. The new Android Emulator release is enabled to run x86 based Android Virtual Devices (AVD) on computers that use AMD processors. The top-most priority of Google’s Android Studio team is to infuse more speed and make the Android Emulator faster. So to cater to this issue, Google has come forward with the new update. But for the Microsoft Windows or the Microsoft Hyper-V platform, hardware accelerated speed enhancements worked only with computers with Intel processors. To make it more robust, Google has come up with some more additions.Įarlier, Google released quick boot & emulator snapshots for quickly starting and resuming emulator sessions in under 2 seconds, and it works flawlessly on macOS and Linux computers. Presently, the Android Emulator is more on demand than the physical Android devices. The last make-over of the Android Emulator was done two years back, which focused on delivering a fast and feature-rich experience to develop an app. With such a huge user base, the Android Emulator does call for massive demand. And if it's about Android then you must know Android accounts for almost 85 percent of the global mobile OS market share in sales to end users.
Everyone knows what role an Emulator plays for the developers.