Android Question Is anyone using AVD Emulators?

[Diceman]

I used to use HAXM or its replacement accelerator software to run AVD on my Win 10 box. It worked great and would load the B4A app in about 2 seconds in the emulator. Without the accelerator software it was really slow loading.

1) I'm now getting a new AMD computer and wanted to know if anyone has solved the program on running AVD on AMD computers?
2) Are any fast 3rd party emulators available?
3) Otherwise I'll end up buying at least a tablet for testing the app to make sure I'm using the screen space effectively.

TIA

 

[teddybear]

A:
1.There is no problem to run AVD on AMD computers.
2.yes, there are some simulators, such as Bluestack,NoxPlayer, etc
3.A real device is useful for testing camera, BLE, and GPS etc,

 

[Diceman]

A:
1.There is no problem to run AVD on AMD computers.
2.yes, there are some simulators, such as Bluestack,NoxPlayer, etc
3.A real device is useful for testing camera, BLE, and GPS etc,

Is the AVD performance on AMD computers respectable?
To get performance from AVD, do I need an AMD hyperthreading processor like Ryzen 7 or 9? Ryzen Threadripper processor?
Or can a lower cost Ryzen 3 and 5 without hyperthreading work fast enough?

From my experience with an Intel processor, it needed hyperthreading to make AVD nearly as fast as a phone.

TIA

 

[teddybear]

Yes.
I don't know what you want to do on AVD, at least in my opinion，it is enough for me on pc with AMD Ryzen 5 2600

 

[aeric]

HAXM is deprecated.

Android Emulator Hypervisor Driver (AEHD)

So when I start new emulator, it says Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) support will be removed and recommend to use Android Emulator hypervisor driver (AEHD). I open B4A SDK Manager and installed the driver but it seems the emulator is not starting. After making some browsing...

www.b4x.com

It is now using AEHD (formerly call GVM) and WHPX

Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator | Android Studio | Android Developers

Discover how the Android Emulator can use hardware acceleration features to improve performance.

developer.android.com

 

[Sandman]

HAXM is deprecated.

Just a note that the forum contains multiple posts where Erel recommends to install HAXM.

 

[aeric]

Just a note that the forum contains multiple posts where Erel recommends to install HAXM.

Can you point out these posts?
It may be already outdated.

 

[Sagenut]

I can confirm that HAXM has been deprecated from Android Emulator version 33 (intended as the software not the SDK) in favour of AEHD
You should see HAXM Deprecated even in SDK Manager.
You can leave HAXM installed, simply Android Emulator will not rely on it.

 

[Sagenut]

@Diceman
This could be useful if you didn't found it already
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/amd-ryzen-processor-android-emulator-avd.104570/
I would use, if possible, only the official emulators from Google SDK and not 3rd party softwares.
3rd party softwares often are stuck on a certain Android version and updated when they need.
With the official ones you can have whatever version of Android you wish to test and it will be as near as a real device.
Of course a final test on REAL devices it's strongly recommended especially for production releases.
And not everything can be tested reliably with emulators.
I find them extremely useful to test Google limitations year by year.

 

[Sandman]

Can you point out these posts?

I did this search, clicked a couple of them and saw it. Didn't bookmark them or anything, but the results should be in this list.

site:b4x.com HAXM erel at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

 

[Diceman]

This link may be of help. HAXM has been deprecated for a few years now. Android Studio uses AVD with AEHD and they explain how to install it. This is how they get AVD to run nearly as fast as hardware. I'm glad to see they support AMD processors because from what I've heard, the new AMD processors that came out this month has leapfrogged Intel processors.

Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator