Android Studio/Emulator on macOS with ARM CPU M1

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hannes ach picture hannes ach · Nov 19, 2020 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I started Android Studio 4.1 in macOS Big Sure 11.0.1 with new ARM cpu M1

After installing Rosetta: Yes, it builds !

But the Emulator has problems, it shows me CPU does not support VT-x

Even ARM images have this issue enter image description here

I used the most recent, a very old api25 (Google has to do here something) but it's increadible slow

How to make the Emulator work and fast ?

Answer

hannes ach picture hannes ach · Dec 7, 2020

Good news !

I can confirm, this preview works properly https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html

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Ok it has some limitations, but it works and it's fast

Edit on 4th Feb 2021

Now audio in and out works properly https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/issues/10#issuecomment-773532762

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