Android Question B4A on windows ARM inside VM

[KZero]

i'm running B4A 13.70 on VM (UTM QEMU / windows ARM 10gb ram) on macbook pro M5 24gb ram
the compiling is too slow it can take about 4 minutes compiling the same project that compiles only in about 30 seconds on windows x86 vm on other machine with less ram and cpu

is there any way to make it faster ?

 

[aeric]

Try this:

Running B4J on macOS (Free/No VM)

Today I found a simple way to run B4J on macOS (I am using macOS Sequoia version 15.7.5 on my MacBookPro mid 2015 Intel chipset). You need to get Sikarugir Link: https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir Install using homebrew brew upgrade brew install --cask...

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[JordiCP]

I was experiencing the same problem (UTM QEMU Windows ARM 8GB Ram) on MacBook Pro M4 24GB Ram.
The slowest part for me was, by far, DEX code and merge.

Assuming you already have your project in a non-shared folder, the key for me has been the java version, which needs to be aarch64 and not amd64, otherwise the emulation takes a long time (thanks chatGPT!)

Way to check you current Java architecture (In my case it was os.arch = amd64)
java -XshowSettings:properties -version 2>&1 | findstr "os.arch"

If this is your case, try downloading Zulu 19.28.81 / OpenJDK 19+36, unzip it and replace the new Javac.exe path in your B4A IDE. It has worked for me and now it's faster than with my old Windows PC

 

[KZero]

I was experiencing the same problem (UTM QEMU Windows ARM 8GB Ram) on MacBook Pro M4 24GB Ram.
The slowest part for me was, by far, DEX code and merge.

Assuming you already have your project in a non-shared folder, the key for me has been the java version, which needs to be aarch64 and not amd64, otherwise the emulation takes a long time (thanks chatGPT!)

Way to check you current Java architecture (In my case it was os.arch = amd64)
java -XshowSettings:properties -version 2>&1 | findstr "os.arch"

If this is your case, try downloading Zulu 19.28.81 / OpenJDK 19+36, unzip it and replace the new Javac.exe path in your B4A IDE. It has worked for me and now it's faster than with my old Windows PC

i've swiched to parallel VM instead of UTM because it has a better performance , but with this fix it's way much faster now on both UTM and parallel ! , thank you