Emulator Android Mac M1

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This is the second post that I dedicate to talk about configurations using the new M1 Apple processor. As I said in the previous post, these configurations are workarounds until stable versions are released, however, for me, they have been useful and I guess that someone in the same situation as me can benefit from that.

Using Android studio in the new Macbook Air

When you install Android Studio you will get the following warning:

Unable to install Intel® HAXM

Your CPU does not support VT-x.

The emulator works great, its super fast, so much more than what I have used in my windows machine. And regarding the full screen halt its due to macos big sur. Had that issue on my old mac. Run this command on the terminal and it wont happen again defaults write com.google.android.studio AppleWindowTabbingMode manual.

Mac OS, on the other hand, is a wonderful operating system used by Apple Inc. On it's Mac PC and MacBook. It has a marvelous user interface and great features. It will be fantastic if we were able to use Android apps on Mac PC. Luckily, it is possible by using an emulator. In this article, we will learn about the five best Android Emulators for. Android Emulator for Macbook M1 - posted in Mac OS: Hello all, I am looking for an Android emulator for Macbook PRO M1. I have tried Bluestack, NOX and Genymotion but they are not working. No emulators at this point. IntelliJ has some lags in performance on M1 (because it is not native, and Intel built), but feels pretty usable. Yes, Android Studio and the M1 emulator are working. However keep in mind that sometimes Android Studio will start pushing to Swap massively about 1 hour of work in. Step 1 → Download Android Studio and choose correct version for Mac M1 chip. Step 2 → Install Android Studio and create emulator (if it’s created by default don’t use that one. I created manually) Now run your emualtor from AVD Manager because in my case it was not showing emulator option.

Unfortunately, your computer does not support hardware-accelerated virtualization.

Here are some of your options:

1 - Use a physical device for testing

2 - Develop on a Windows/OSX computer with an Intel processor that supports VT-x and NX

3 - Develop on a Linux computer that supports VT-x or SVM

4 - Use an Android Virtual Device based on an ARM system image

(This is 10x slower than hardware-accelerated virtualization)

Creating Android virtual device

Android virtual device Pixel_3a_API_30_x86 was successfully created

And also in the Android virtual device (AVD) screen you will read the following warning:

If you want to learn more regarding virtualization in processors you can read the following Wikipedia article, the thing is that our M1 processor doesn’t support VT-x, however, we have options to run an Android Virtual Device.

As the previous message was telling us, we have 4 options. The easiest way to proceed is to use a physical device, but what if you haven’t one available at the moment you are developing?

Any emulators that work with m1 mac

From now on, we will go with the option of using an Android virtual device based on an ARM system image as options 2 and 3 are not possible to execute.

Using the virtual emulator

The only thing that you have to do is to download the last available emulator for Apple silicon processors from Github https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases/tag/0.2

Once you have downloaded you have to right-click to the .dmg file and click open to skip the developer verification.

After installing the virtual emulator, we have to open it from the Applications menu.

After opening it you will see Virtual emulator in Android Studio available to deploy your Android application. Make sure to have Project tools available in Android Studio (View -> Tool Windows -> Project)

After pressing the launch button you will get your Android application running in your ARM virtual emulator :-)

Conclusion

In this post, we have seen that is possible to install Android Studio in Macbook Air M1 and use a virtual device even that your M1 doesn’t support VT-x. You can learn more about this emulator in the following references:

Nox works seamlessly on mac based machines including iMac and macbooks. Android is an highly customizable OS and supports hundreds and thousands of games and apps and this is why it is loved by even apple lovers. If you are a mac user but want to play android games on your mac then Nox is absolutely for you. Nox for mac is free to download and you would be able to play high end android games easily on your mac.

Nox app player allows you to emulate the android experience right on your mac computer. Mac OS is not very popular for high end games and therefore you can install Nox on your Mac and enjoy high end android games without any lag.

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