Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support

Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by mdwrigh2 on Monday April 09, 2012 @04:00PM (#3818918)

Note that you have to enable GPU Emulation for any given AVD first! A lot of people seem (understandably) confused that their emulator wasn't suddenly much faster with this update.

Quick Start Guide to Getting GPU Emulation Working:

* Open up the settings for your AVD (either by creating a new one or editing a current one)

* Go to Hardware (near the bottom), and hit new on the far right

* Select GPU emulation from the drop down list and hit okay

* Find GPU emulation in the list of properties under hardware, click on the value column and set it to "yes"

See here[1] for more ways on how to speed up your emulator.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulat...

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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by robot on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:10PM (#3819502)

I am wondering about the opposite case: how do they emulate graphics when there is no GPU support? Do they emulate the GPU device, or use a software library? Which library if it is done in software?

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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by mdwrigh2 on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:35AM (#3822325)

Essentially all of the commands on the device are translated into native OpenGL calls, so I suspect if you don't have a GPU you just get the default OpenGL software renderer.

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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by biafra on Monday April 09, 2012 @07:53PM (#3819924)

I did as you suggested but in the logcat output I see the following message:

"Emulator without GPU emulation detected."

Is it accelerated anyway?

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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by biafra on Monday April 09, 2012 @07:56PM (#3819932)

It seems to be working if I start the emulator on the command line via:

emulator -avd 403_r2 -gpu on

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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by huggyface on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:13PM (#3819518)

To add an anecdote about this new functionality, I have been unsuccessful using the GPU acceleration (x64 Windows 7 with an nvidia GTX 560 w/latest drivers). With the emulation on the AVD GPFs with emulator-arm.exe has stopped working (invalid access). Anyone have success?

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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support by blinkingled on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:38PM (#3819651)

Me neither - Win 7 x64 Sandy Bridge GPU.

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