In the Settings → System → Processor section you can allocate a few more cores if your desktop can pull it off.Īnd in Settings → Display → Video Memory you can allocate a decent chunk of memory and enable 3D acceleration for a more responsive experience.

To do this, right-click on the VM and open up settings. Upon creation, you might want to tweak a few additional settings, add in an additional processor core and improve display memory for starters. Although if you want to emulate real world devices you should allocate upto 6GB for memory and 32GB for disk size which are typical in Android devices. RAM size could be anywhere from 2 GB to as much as your system resources can allow. Open VirtualBox and click on “New” (top-left corner) and in the Create Virtual Machine window select the type to be Linux and version Linux 2.6 / 3.x /4.x (64-bit) or (32-bit) depending upon whether the ISO you downloaded was x86_64 or x86 respectively. You may prefer using a more stable release but in that case Android 6.0 is about as latest as you can get, at the time of this writing. These fine folks have ported Android to run on x86 hardware (both real and virtual) and we can get a copy of the latest release candidate (Android 7.1) for our purposes. While most Android devices run on ARM, we can take help of the project Android on x86. Next you would need a copy of Android meant to run on x86 hardware, because that’s what VirtualBox is going to offer to a Virtual Machine an x86 or an x86_64 (a.k.a AMD64) platform to run. To get started we will need to have VirtualBox installed on our system, you can get a copy for Windows, macOS or any major distro of Linux here. So without further ado let’s set on up! Getting Started You can use this VM to run your test application or just fiddle with Android’s internals.

An efficient work around for this is installing Android on your VirtualBox which takes away one of the sluggiest aspect of Android development - The device emulator. Needless to say, all the binaries, SDKs, frameworks and debuggers are going to pollute your filesystem with lots and lots of files, logs and other miscellaneous objects.

While iOS comes with its niceties, provided you are using macOS, Android comes with just Android Studio which is designed to support more than a few Android version, including wearables. If you are developing mobile apps Android can be a bit of a hassle.

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