
In most cases, the emulator is the best option for your testing needs. To the emulator than to a device connected over USB. For example, you can transfer data faster Speed: Testing your app on the emulator is in some ways faster and easier Rotation and other hardware sensors, access the Google Play Store, and much Specify the location of the device, simulate different network speeds, simulate You can simulate incoming phone calls and text messages, High fidelity: The emulator provides almost all the capabilities ofĪ real Android device. Various Android phone, tablet, Wear OS, and Android TV devices. The emulator offers these advantages:įlexibility: In addition to being able to simulate a variety of devicesĪnd Android API levels, the emulator comes with predefined configurations for Test your application on a variety of devices and Android API levels without I'll update when a Apple Silicon optimized Android Studio comes out.The Android Emulator simulates Android devices on your computer so that you can M1 chips are cool (in a temperature sense), but currently slow. CPU Temperatures: 88 to 92C(+hot air blowing out 😅) VS.MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9 VS.gradlew assembleDebug takes after a warm up of the same (. The compile times are the least of my worries (see bottom section).Random freezes which require app restart.Very slow typing and clicking sometimes (general lag).Very slow indexing/ navigation around the code base.I also use a physical device to dedicate more mac resources to the IDE. I keep telling myself the M1 is faster, but I in reality I only notice speed reduction and freezes when compared to MacBook Pro 16" 2020 2.3GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9 or my Intel i7-9700K Hackintosh. I've always been on the Canary version too. I've tried to use Android Studio for the past couple of months, and to me, it is unusable, let alone at parity with running it on Intel. Serious performance issues (before May 2021) I've noticed its also a day late on releases. Don't use jetbrains toolbox because it is bit buggy, it downloaded an outdated version of Android Studio. The Beta version (Arctic Fox Beta 4) now has Apple Silicon support, so you can download it from Android Studio download archives. Available on Android Studio Arctic Fox (Beta)
